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.

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    ADENOCHIRAPSOLOGIA—ADENOMENINGEUS. Ade'nochirapsolo'g-ia. {'KHu; xe<- paxf/ta, a touching with the hands ; Xdyos, a dis- course, F. and Gr. adtnochirapsologie.) The doctrine of the reputed faculty possessed by the kings of England of curing scrofulous disease by touching the patient. Ade'noclioeradolo'g'ia'. The same as Adtnochoiraddogia. Ade'nochoiradelo'g-ia. (^Mnv, xoi- pdSt^, scrofulous swellings; Xoyos, a discourse.) The doctrine of glandular and strumous swelHngs ; a book under this title was published by Dr. John Browne, of Norwich, in 1684. Adenoclion'drious. ('Adnv, a gland; ■x6vSpo9, cartilage.) Applied to tumours affecting gland and cartilage. Adeno'des. Same as Adenose. Adenodias'tasis. {'Mnv, ^lao-Tao-te, a separation. F. adenodiastase.) Division of a gland; the abnormal separation of the lobes of conglomerate glands from each other. Adenodyn'ia. ('A57?i/, a gland; d^vvy], pain.) Pain in a gland. _ Adenogren'esiS. (^Mnv, ytVEcns, genera- tion. F. adenoginesie ; Qt, JDrusenbildung.) The formation of glands, Adenogr'raphy. ('Aa?jy, agland; ypdcpco, to write, h. adenographia ; F. adenographie ; G. die Beschriebung der Driisen.) Term for a treatise or dissertation on the glandular system. Ad'enoid. ('A^^i^, a gland. Ij, adenoides; F. adenoide; G. driisenformig.) Kesembling a gland ; adeiiiform; gland-like; glandular. A., bod'y. A synonym of the Prostate gland. A, can'cer. See Cancer, adenoid. £k., mus'cle. A small fasciculus of muscu- lar fibres occasionally found on each side of the thyroid gland; it forms part of the inferior con- strictor of the pharynx. (Winslow.) £%.. tis'sue. A variety of connective tissue occurring in the lymphatic glands, Peyer's patches, mucous membrane of the alimentary canal, and other structures. It consists of delicately reticu- lated, sometimes nucleated, fibres, in the meshes of which are numerous lymphoid corpuscles, A. tu'mour. A tumour presenting the structures of a gland. See Adenoma. A, veg-eta'tions. Term applied to small polypoid growths of mucous membranes. Adenoi'da cor'pora. (' Aa^v, a gland; corpus, a body.) A term proposed instead of melanosis for those tumours in which the glan- dular structure is more important than the pig- ment deposit. Au plas'mata. (JlXdarfia, a thing formed.) A synonym of A. corpora. Adenoi'des. An old epithet of the prostate gland. Adenolog'adi'tis. ('ASvv, XoydSs^, the white of the eyes,) Inflammation of the Meibo- mian glands and of the conjunctival membrane of the eye. Adenol'og'y. ('ASnv,a, gland; Xdyos, a discourse. L. adenologia; F, adenologie; G, Brii- senlehre.) The doctrine which treats of the glandular system. Adenolympliat'ocele. The same as Adenolymphocele. Adenolympll'ocele. (^K8nv, a gland; lympha, water ; kt^Xij, a tumour.) Dilatation of the afferent or efferent vessels of lymphatic glands. Adenolympho'ina. A synonym of Lymphadenoma. Adeno'ma* (^Mnv, a gland ; and the ter- mination oma adopted to indicate a tumour. F. adenome, tumeur glandulaire hypertropMque ; I. tumore glandulare; G. Lymphome, JDriiscngc- schwuht.) Adenomata are tumours originating from pre-existing gland-structure and presenting the general characters of racemose or of tubular glands. Robin considers that they differ, according to whether all the constituent parts of a gland are equally or nearly equally hypertrophied; or whether only the vesicles or closed sacs, with their contained epithelium, have augmented in num- ber and in volume, without the intermediate elements of the gland being altered in quantity or disposition; or whether the walls alone of the vesicles have become thickened and enlarged with or without fibroid degeneration; or lastly, whether, as is most usual, the epithelium alone of the gland vesicles has increased in quantity and altered in character. In this last case, by the distension of the vesicles and the compression of the intermediate tissue, the tumour may as- sume the characters of an epithelium, or the organ may actually, as a whole, diminish in size, as is sometimes seen in the case of the mamma and liver. Adenoid tumours are lobulated, hard, non- adherent to the skin or surrounding tissues ; not painful, and develop slowly. The mammary, parotid, thyroid, prostate, and sudoriparous glands, are those that are most frequently affected. They may remain in direct connection with the gland from which they sprang, or they may become separated and encapsulated. Adenomata are usually divided into two forms, the racemose and tubular. A. ac'inous. A synonym of Eacemose adenoma. A, cylin'drical. A synonym of Tubular adenoma. A, rac'emose> This form occurs in the breast gland and the cutaneous glands, less fre- quently in the salivary and mucous glands. It seldom exceeds the size of an egg ; is firm, elastic, smooth, and lobulated. It consists of small acini, limited by a fine hyaline membrane, and enclosing two or more layers of small epithelial cells. The acini communicate with each other, and are sur- rounded by a greater or less quantity of connective tissue, which carries the blood-vessels, and some- times contains spindle cells. Kacemose adeno- mata approach the characters of cancer when the cell element predominates ; those of fibroma when the connective tissue is in excess. Fatty de- generation and cystic and mucoid changes are not uncommon. A., tu'bular. This form occurs in the glands of mucous membranes, and constitutes one . form of mucous polypus. It is soft, greyish, slightly vascular, somewhat gelatinous, and semitranslucent, and occasionally peduncu- lated. A longitudinal section discloses long, sacculated gland tubes, often with lateral out- growths, enclosing cylindrical epithelial cells of larger size than natural; in transverse section the same tubes appear as circles lined Avith epithelium, and containing a retractile colloid material. Tubular adenoma is very liable to cystic degeneration, in which is a colloid or mucoid substance ; it is very subject to cancerous infiltration. Adenomala'cia. {'A^vv; /nakaKia, soft- ness. F. adenomalacie; G. Driisenerweichung.) Softness or softening of the glands. Adenomening'e'us. {'Aovv, yU7>ty^,a membrane. F. adenom,eningee.) A name given
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