Volume 1

The New Sydenham Society's lexicon of medicine and the allied sciences : (based on Mayne's Lexicon) / by Henry Power and Leonard W. Sedgwick.

  • Henry Power
Date:
MDCCCLXXXI [1881]-MDCCCXCIX [1899]
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Credit: The New Sydenham Society's lexicon of medicine and the allied sciences : (based on Mayne's Lexicon) / by Henry Power and Leonard W. Sedgwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    AJUGEiE—AKULKARA. morandola; S. bugula ; G-. Jcriechender Giinzel, Wiesengiinzel.) Common bugle. A perennial plant; almost glabrous, stoloniferous; leaves repand-erenate ; whorls in a loose spike, with spreading bracts; flowers blue. Used in lung and liver diseases. The leaves are officinal in the French Codex. Aju'g'eae. A synonym of Ajugoidem. AjUg'Oi'deae. A Tribe of the Nat. Ord. Labiatce. Stamens four, parallel, ascending, ex- serted, two upper shorter; nutlets connate; base oblique, reticulate, and rugose. Aj'Utag'e. (F. ajutage, ajutoir; I. tubo d' aggiunta; Gr. Atifsatz.) A cyKndrical or conical tube through which water is discharged from a receptacle, as the ajutage of a fountain. It greatly increases the rapidity of the flow as compared with a simple aperture. Aj'wain-ka-pllUl. Flower of Ajwain. The native name of a stearoptene, derived from the distillation of Ajowan fruit. It is identical with Thymol. Aka'kia. A synonym of Acacia arabica. Akat'aliS. The berries of the Juniperus coinmunis. Akataplia'sia. ('A, neg.; KaTa<paLvoD, to declare.) A term applied to syntactic disturb- ances of speech, as opposed to the faulty use of words. Inability to form a perfect sentence. The correct diction of a sentence in the gram- matical languages presupposes three things— unbroken flow of words, perfect grammatical dic- tion, and correct arrangement of words; when any one of them is absent akataphasia results. (Kussmaul.) Akate'ra. The berries of the Juniperus communis. A'ka tree. The Metrosideros scandens. Nat. Ord. Myrtacece. The clubs and weapons of the South Sea Islanders are made from this and other species of the genus. Akaz'g'3'- Boundu. The ordeal poison of the Gaboon country in West Africa. It is ob- tained from a plant growing in marshy places to a height of eight feet, and probably an un- described species of the Genus Strychnos. Akaz'sria* An alkaloid obtained by Dr. Fraser from the Akazga. It is a colourless diffi- cultly crystallisable alkaloid, soluble in alcohol, ether, chloroform, benzol, and bisulphide of car- bon, but nearly insoluble in water. Its physio- logical eff'ects are precisely those of strychnia. Akaz'g'ina A synonym of AJcazgia. Ake'bia. A Genus of Chinese and Japanese climbing plants of the Nat. Ord. Lardizabalacece, or Berberidacece. The flowers are monoecious, with a petaloid calyx; male flowers with about six stamens, with extrorse anthers; female flowers with sterile stamens, and from 3—12 carpels; ovary with numerous anatropal ovules ; fruit a large fleshy folKcle; seeds arillate, with abundant albumen and excentric embryo. quina'ta. Hab. Japan. The fruit is used as an emollient. A'kee tree. BUgMa, or Cupania sapida. Nat. Ord. Sapindacece. The succulent aril of this tree is an article of food ; the fruits boiled down with sugar and cinnamon are used in diarrhoea ; and the distilled water of the flowers is regarded by Negro women as a cosmetic, probably owing to the large amount of saponaceous matter contained in it. Ake'omine. A synonym of the Teinture de noix de^ galle composee. Ak'hll Almelech. A Leguminous plant in high repute amongst the Arabs as a medicine. It is probably the Trigonella hamosa, L., or Melilotus ccgyptius of Alpinus. It was formerly so much esteemed by the Arabians that it was reserved for the royal use. Ak'llO. The principle of conscience, one of the flve parts or principles of which, according to Zoroaster^ the soul of man consists. Sec Boe, Feroher^ Jan, and Ronan. A'kibot. (Arab.) Term for Sulphur. (Euland.) Akidopeiras'tics. ('A/ck, a point; TTZLpcLco, to explore.) A term applied by Mid- deldorpf, of Ereslau, to a method of explora- tion by means of needles, or other pointed in- struments. Amongst the more important means included \mder this head are some that have been long in use, as the exploring needle, trocar, grooved needle, trephine, and drill, and others, as the harpoon needle, so useful in extracting small portions of muscular tissue, with the view of establishing the diagnosis of trichinism, and galvano-puncture, which are of modern intro- duction. Akidur'sria ('A/cl?, a point; epyov, a work.) A term for operative surgery. Akine'sia. The same as Acinesia. Akine'siC. ('A, neg., and klvIw, to set in motion.) That which is opposed to movement; the diastole as opposed to the systole of the heart. Akine'SiS. ('A/ctj/jjo-ta ; d, neg. ; kluIu).) Absence or defect of movement, hence applied to the diastole of the heart. Akiur g'ia. ('Aki?, a point; epyov, a work.) A title given to a treatise on surgical operations. Ak'kas. A race of African Negroes. Akmel'la. Same as Acmella. Ak'na-Iia'lio'. Austria-Hungary; in the Marmaroser County. An alkaline chalybeate water having a local reputation. .A..-Su'g-atairb. Austria-Hungary; in the Marmaroser County. A strong salt spring. Used as a bath. A.-Szlati'na. Austria-Hungary. Sool or concentrated saline baths in connection with the salt mines of Szlatina. Ak'ne. A synonym of Acne. Akne'mia. (A, priv.; Kvi'ifxr], the leg. F. ahnemie.) A monstrosity, characterised by the absence of legs. (Breschet.) Aknes'tiS. (Gr.) A synonym employed by Dioscorides of the Cneorum tricoccum. Ako'kO. The native name in the Sand- wich Islands of a species of Euphorbia, the milky juice of which, according to Bennett, is applied to ulcers, and removes the foetid odour of the dis- charge. (Waring.) Akol'og'y. Same as Acology. AkO'ria. ('AKopia, from uKopo?, untiring. G. Unersdttlichkeit.) In Hippocrates, 1180 F., moderation in eating; but in Areteeus, Cor. M. Acat. 2—2, it is used in regard to drink in the sense of insatiable desire. Bulimia. AkOS'moi. A synonym of Acosmia. Akratope'grSB. Same as Acratopegce. Akratotlier'mee. ('A, neg.; KpaTo^, strength; Qipp.n, heat.) Indifferent thermal waters. Ak'rott. Bengali name of Bancoul, the Aleurites moluccana. Ak'sis. A sjTionjTn of Intermittent fever. AkulkaTa. The Arabic name of the Pel- litory root.
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