A comprehensive medical dictionary : containing the pronunciation, etymology, and signification of the terms made use of in medicine and the kindred sciences.

Joseph Thomas

Date:: 1865

Credit: A comprehensive medical dictionary : containing the pronunciation, etymology, and signification of the terms made use of in medicine and the kindred sciences. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$A'cus Tri-que'tra.* A trochar: a three-cornered needle. Ac-ut-an'gu-lar, or Ac-ut-an'g-u- late. [Acutang'ula'ris, Aeutangu- la'tus; from acu'tus, sharp, and an'(julu8, a corner.] Having sharp angles. A-cfite'. [Acu'tus; from ac'uo,acu'- tum, to sharpen, to point.] Ending in a point. Applied also to diseases having violent symptoms attended with danger, and terminating within a few days. Ac-u-te-iiac'u-lum.* [From a'cus, a tf< needle, and tenaculum, a handle.] A handle for a needle. Also called Porte- aiyuille. A-cy'a-uo-blep'si-a.* [From a, priv., Kvauog, blue, and /JActw, to look, to see.] Defect of vision by which bluo color cannot be distinguished. Acyesis,* as-i-e'sis. [From a, priv., and ta'iricii, pregnancy.] Sterility in women. Ad. A Latin preposition signifying to, at, by, towards, near, with, etc. In compound words the d is usually changed to correspond with the following letter. Thus, ad becomes ac before c, al before I, ap before p, etc. Ad. or Add. = Ad'de, adda'tur* etc. Add, or let there be added. Ad Def. Auimi = Ad defectionem animi* (ad de-fek-she-o'nem an'e-mi). To fainting. Ad Deliquium* (de-lik'we-um), or Ad Deliq'uium An'imi.* To faint- ing. Used in directions for venesection. Ad 2 Vic. = Ad du'as vi'ces.* At two times, or at twice taking. Ad lib. = Ad libi'tum.* At plea- sure. A-dac'ry-a.* [From a, priv., and Sdxpiov, a. tear.] A deficiency of the iachrymal secretion. AdaMnonia,* a-de-mo'ne-a. [From a, priv., and tiaipuv, fortune.] Restless or unhappy thoughts; anxiety. Ad'a-mant. [Ad'ainas. Adaman'- tis; from a, neg., and <5u/<aw, to subdue.] Literally, that which [on account of its hardness] cannot be subdued. Diamond, the hardest of all substances. Ad-a-man'tine. [ Adaman'tinus; from the preceding.] Having the hard- ness or lustre of adamant. Adam's Apple. See Pomum Adami. Ad-ap'ter. A tube used in Chemistry for increasing the length of the neck of a retort, or for connecting the retort with the receiver, where the orifice of 20 the latter is not large enough to admit the beak of the retort. Ad-de-pbagi-a. [From a^v, or aofav, abundantly, and ipaytXv, to eat.] Voracious appetite, or Bulimia. Ad'di»son's Dis-ease'. The 3felasma aupra-renale, first described by him. Ad-di-ta-men turn. [From ad'do, ad'ditum, to add or adjoin.] A small suture sometimes found added to the lambdoid and squamous sutures. Ad-du'cens.* [From ad, to, and du'co, to lead, to draw.] Drawing together: addu'eent. Ad-duc'tiou. [Addactio. o'ms; from the same.] That movement by which one part, as a limb or finger, is drawn to another, or to the mesial line. Ad-duc'tor, o'r/s.* [From the same.] Applied to muscles that perform adduc- tion. See Antithenar. A'den,* gen. Ad'euis. [Gr. d6ijv, a gland.] A gland. A bubo. Ad-en-al'g*I-a.* [From dSf/v, a gland, and oikyos, pain.] Pain in a gland: adenal'gy. Ad'en-em-pnrax'is.* [From abr\v, a gland, and t^ppa^is, obstruction.] Glandular obstruction. Ad-en'i-form. [Adeniform'is; from a'den, a gland.] Formed like a gland; glandiform. See Adenoid. Ad-eu-i'tis, %dis.* [From dirjv, a gland.] Inflammation of a gland; bubo. Ad'eu-o-dyn'I-av*' [From dd>v>, aSevos, a gland, and dSvvrj, pain.] Pain in a gland. See Adenalgia. Ad-eu-og'ra-ph$r. [Adenograph'- ia; from d^, a gland, and ypdcbw, to write.] A treatise or dissertation on the glandular system. Ad'en-oid. [Adcnoi'des; from defy, a gland, and eidos, a form.] Resem- bling a gland. Ad-en-ol'o-gy. [Adenolo'gia; from ddf\v, a gland, and A<5yoj, a discourse.] The doctrine of the glandular system. The science which treats of glands or of the glandular system. Ad'en-o-me-niu'ge-us.* [From d8fjv, a gland, and /^lyf, a membrane.] Applied to mucous or pituitous fever {Febris adenomeninqea), because the membranes and follicular glands ol the intestines were held to be the chief seat of the complaint. Adeu-on-co'sis,* or Adcn-oii-lco'- SlSL* [From d()r\v, a gland, and dyxoco, to puff up or swell.] Swelling of a gland.$