A comprehensive medical dictionary : containing the pronunciation, etymology, and signification of the terms made use of in medicine and the kindred sciences / with an appendix, comprising a complete list of all the more important articles of the materia medica, arranged according to their medicinal properties; also an explanation of the Latin terms and phrases occurring in anatomy, pharmacy, etc.; together with the necessary directions for writing Latin prescriptions, etc., etc.
- Joseph Thomas
- Date:
- 1875
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Credit: A comprehensive medical dictionary : containing the pronunciation, etymology, and signification of the terms made use of in medicine and the kindred sciences / with an appendix, comprising a complete list of all the more important articles of the materia medica, arranged according to their medicinal properties; also an explanation of the Latin terms and phrases occurring in anatomy, pharmacy, etc.; together with the necessary directions for writing Latin prescriptions, etc., etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A-^epli'a-los'to-iims,* or A-$epli- a-los'to-ina.* [From the same.] A monster-foetus, without a h(±ad, hut having an aperture like a inouth. A-$ei»ta'a-l©»tlio-ra'cI-R.* [From «, priv., K£pa\>), the head, and 0;u/jaf, the chest.] A form of monstrosity, consisting in the want of head and chest. A-^eph^a-lo-tho'rus.'* [From the same.] A monster-foetus, without head and chest. A-ceph'a-lus.* [From a, priv, and K€<l>a\ij, the head.] Without a head: aeeph'alous. In the neuter plural (Aceph'ala) applied to a class of Jlol- lusca having no appearance of a head. A'^jer.* The maple. A^'era,* the plural of A'cer, a ma- ple-tree,—forming the Jussieuan name of a natural order of plants. See Ace- RACE.E. A'^er Sac-ctaa-ri'smm.® The sugar- maple-tree. Aceracese,* as-e-ra'she-e, or A-^er- in'e-je.s [From a'cer, the maple-tree.] A natural order of plants including the maple. A^j'e-rate. [Ace'ras, a'tis.] A com- bination of aceric acid with a salifiable base. A-cer'bi-ty. [Aeer'bitas, a'tis; from ace/baa, crude, harsh.] Sour- ness, with harshness. A-cer'ic. [Acer'icus; from aver, the maple-tree.] Pertaining to the Acer. Applied to an acid obtained from the juices of A'cer campes'tre, and A'cer jjseu'du-plat'anus. Aeerisiea?. [From the same.] See ACERACEjE. A$'er-6se. [Acsro'sns; from a'ens, ac'eris, chaff.] Chaffy; like chaff. A-cer'vu-lus.* [Diminutive of acer'- vui', a heap.] The collection of sand- like particles found in the pineal gland: an acer'vule. A-ces'^ent. [Aces'cens; from«ees'- co, to grow sour.] Becoming sour. A-ce'ta,* the plural of Ace'tuji, vinegar, applied in Pharmacy to preparations of vinegar. A$-e-tab'u-lum.* [From ace'tum, vinegar.] A little cup used by the an- cients for holding vinegar. Applied, in Anatomy, to the round cavity in the Os ■innnminatum which .receives the head of ♦he Oi/emoris. A^'e-tal. A compound of aldehyde with ether; formed by the action of pla- tinum black on the vapor of alcohol with the presence of oxygen. It is a colorless, very fluid liquid, having a peculiar odor, suggesting that of Hun- gary wines. A^-e-ta'rl-wni,* plural Ag-e-ta'ri-a, [From ace'tum, vinegar.] A salad made of roots or herbs mixed with oil, salt, and vinegar. Aceta'i'iuin Scor-bu'tl-cnm.* A kind of pickle for scorbutic patients. A^'e-tate. [A^e'las, a'tis.] A com- bination of acetic acid with a base. A-cet'ic. [Acet'icus; from ace'tum, vinegar.] Belonging to vinegar. Ap- plied to an acid the product of acetous fermentation. A-ceti'I-ca.* [From the same.] Phar- maceutical preparations of vinegar. Acet'ic A^'id. [A$'idiim Acet'i- cimi.] The sour principle which exists in vinegar. It occurs ready-formed in several products of the vegetable king- dom ; it is also generated during the spontaneous fermentation of many vege- table and animal juices. Two kinds are known in Pharmacy,—viz.: Ac'idum acet'icnm dilu'tum, dilute acetic acid, or common distilled vinegar, with very minute portions of uncombined mucilage and extractive. At/idum acet'ieum for'- tiits, strong acetic acid. This variety is obtained by distillation from wood, generally that of oak coppice deprived of its bark, and is then termed pyrolig- neous acid; also by decomposing the acetates by sulphuric acid; it is then termed radical vinegar; and when mixed with camphor and essential oils, it \a called Henry's Aromatic Essence of Vinegar, and Marseilles or Thieves' Vinegar, or Vinnigre des Qutttre Volcurs (ve'negR' da katR vo^Iur'). See Gla- cial Acid. A-cet'I-fl-ca'tion. [Acetifica'tio, o'n is; from ace'tum, and fa'cio, to make.] The act or process of making vinegar. A^'e-tite. [Ace'tis, i'tis ; from ace'- tum.] An erroneous name for the salt of acetous acid, in distinction from that of acetic acid, given when these acids were supposed to be different. The proper term is Acetate, which see. A^-e-tom'e-ter. [Aeetom'etrtiBTi t from ace'tum, and jiirpov, a measure.] An instrument for ascertaining the strength of vinegar. A^'e-tone. A substance found, as an impurity, associated with pyro-acetic spirit, or naphtha. Ag-e-to'sa.* [From a'ceo, to be](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21197015_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
