Lexicon medicum; or medical dictionary; containing an explanation and comparative, botany, chemistry, materia medica, midwifery, pharmacy, physiology, practice of physic, surgery, and the various branches of natural philosopy, connected with medicine / Selected, arranged and compiled, from the best authors, by Robert Hooper.

  • Robert Hooper
Date:
1839
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Credit: Lexicon medicum; or medical dictionary; containing an explanation and comparative, botany, chemistry, materia medica, midwifery, pharmacy, physiology, practice of physic, surgery, and the various branches of natural philosopy, connected with medicine / Selected, arranged and compiled, from the best authors, by Robert Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ACR ACT r>2 @ou>, to cover. The prepuce, according to most writers ; but Kraus thinks it means the operation of circumcision. Acrocheire'sis. A kind of wrestling, in which the hands of the athlete were opposed. ACROCHEI'RIS. (From aKpos, ex¬ treme, and xe‘P< a hand. Gorrams says, it sig¬ nifies the arm from the elbow to the ends of the fingers; xelP signifying the arm, from the sca¬ pula to the fingers’ ends. ACROCHO'R DON. (urn, i. n. ; from aicpos, extreme, and x°P^V^ a string. A small hard tumour, or wart, placed on a narrow base, or hanging by a pedicle. Acrocuor'xsmus. ( From aKpos, extreme, and X°p*vco, to dance.) A species of dance practised by the Greeks, in which the limbs were violently agitated. Acrole'nion. (From aicpos, extreme, and oiAeioj, the cubit.) See Olecranon. ACROMA'NIA. (a, a. f. ; from aicpos, extreme, and paria, madness.) Total or incura¬ ble madness. ACROMIA'LIS. Acromial; appertaining to the acromion. ACRO'MIO N. (Acromium, i. n. ; from aKpos, extreme, and capos, the shoulder. A pro¬ cess of the scapula or shoulder-blade. See Scapula. ACRO'MPH ALON. (urn, i. n.; AKpog- cpaAov; from aicpos, extreme, and opcpaAos, the navel.) The centre of the navel to which the umbilical cord is attached in the foetus. Acron. Aicpav. The extreme part of a limb. Acro'nia. (AKpinvia, from an poor, an extre¬ mity.) The amputation of any extreme part, as of a finger or toe. Acro'pathus. (AKpoicados ; from aKpos, ex¬ treme, and naOos, a disease.) A term applied by Hippocrates to an organ diseased in its ex¬ treme part; or to a disease situated on the sur¬ face or extremities of the body ; thus aKponados CTopuxos, the os uteri diseased at its external part; aicpoicadoi KapKivoi, cancers situated super¬ ficially, or on prominent parts, as opposed to those which are hidden or deep-seated (icpuirToi, vico€puxcoi). AcroThyton. (From aKpos, excellent, and fpuTou, a plant.) The coltsfoot. Sce Tussilago farfara. Acropo'stiiia (a, ce. f. ; from aicpos, extreme, and icocrdrj, the prepuce.) The extremity of the prepuce ; that part which is removed in circum¬ cision. Acroi-si'lon. (From aicpos, extreme, and ipiAos, naked.) The extremity of the glans penis. AVrospire. (Acrospira; from aicpos, ex¬ treme, and aiccipa, anything spiral.) The name given by Grew to the pin inula of barley deve¬ loped by germination. Acrotk'ria. (AKpcorypia; from aicpos, ex¬ treme.) The extremities of the body. Acroteria'smus. (From aicpuiTy/uafa, to amputate an extremity.) The amputation of an extremity. Acrotiiy'mion. (From aicpos, extreme, and Su/ios, thyme.) A kind of wart described by Celsus as hard and rough, with a narrow base I and a broad top, resembling the flower of thyme ; it easily splits and bleeds. Acro'ticus. (From aKpos, extreme.) Af¬ fecting the external surface. Acrotica is the name given by Dr. Good to the third order of his class Eccritica. Acroti'smus. (From a, priv. and Kporos, the pulse. Acrotism, defect of pulse. Actas'a. Acte. Aicraia. Axtij. Greek names of the elder tree. See Sambucus. Ac/ije'a. A genus of plants in the Linnaian system. Class Polyandria ; Order Monogynia. Acta:a spicata. A. Cliristophoriana. Flerb Christopher. A plant growing in mountain forests in most parts of Europe. It is very acrid ; the root is strongly cathartic, and the berries are poisonous. Act a: a racemosa. Cliristophoriana Ame- j ricana. Black snake-root. Rich-weed. The i root of this plant is astringent, and its decoction j has been used as a gargle in malignant sore I throat. A'ctine. A/ctuo). The earth-nut. See Bu- i niu m bulbocastan um. Actinobolx'smus. (From anrev, a ray, and t fZaAAco, to throw out.) Iradiatio. Diradiatio. A ) term employed by the ancient physiologists to | designate the instantaneous How of the animal ^ spirits by which the volitions of the mind are j communicated to the different organs. Action. (Actio, onis. f. ; from ago, to act.) ii The exertion or operation of an active power, j The actions or functions of the animal body ) were distinguished by the older physiologists i into the vital, actiones vitales, or such as are im- t mediately necessary to life, as circulation and i respiration; the animal, animates, or those in > which the mind is concerned, as sensation and i voluntary motion ; the natural, naturales, or I those by which the waste of the body is re- | paired, as digestion and assimilation ; the sexual, {] actiones sexus, or those proper to each sex, as the } secretion of semen in the male, and conception (I in the female ; the particular, privatce, or those 11 which are connected with some especial organ, jj as the contraction of the urinary bladder ; j general, publicce, or those which minister to the }l system at large, as the function of the stomach. It This arrangement is confused and inaccurate ; > i for the improved classification adopted by mo- jl dern physiologists, see Function. Morbid ac- I tions are those derangements of the ordinary ||l actions which constitute diseases. Active. Adieus. Acting with energy; thus l| we say an active medicine, an active disease, fl The term is applied to some particular diseases It in a manner not very significant, as active lucinor- (f rhage, active aneurism. Acton. A village four miles from London, Ip which has a well that affords a purging water, iB The water, which resembles that of Epsom, may lli be drunk in the quantity of from one to three IB [lints in the morning; it was formerly in esteem |B for the cure of cutaneous affections, but the |B spring is now no longer resorted to by the jl public. Actual. Adualis. A term applied to any- ||< thing which acts immediately ; it is, however, usually restricted to red-hot iron or any other I