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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$*' grass, and ypa<po), to write.] A trea- tise on grasses. A-gryi>'m-a.* [From a, priv., and vm>os, •'sleep.J Sleeplessness; watchful- ness, or wakefulness. A-gryp-no-co'ma, aft».* [From aypv-vos, sleepless, and Ku^ia, lethar- gy.] A lethargic state of wakefulness, with low muttering delirium, aptly ex- pressed otherwise by the term Coma-vigil. A'gue. [Supposed to be derived from the Gothic ayis, trembling.] The common name for intermittent fever. A'gue-Cake. [Placen'ta Febri'- lis.] Enlargement of the spleen, the effect of protracted ague. A'gue-Drop. A solution of arseniate of potash ; Fowler's tasteless ague-drop, for which the Liquor arseniealis is sub- stituted. It is used as a remedy in in- termittent fevers. A'gue-Tree. Another name for sas- safras, given on account of its virtues as a febrifuge. A-gyr'ta.* Formerly, a mountebank ; a person who collected a crowd about him; a quack. Ah'ri'zous. [Aiiri'zus; from a, priv., and pi^a, a root.] Applied to cer- tain acotyledonous plants, because repro- duced by spondee, without radicles, strik- ing root from any part of their surface. Air. [Lat. A'er, A'eris; Gr. diip; from aw, to breathe.] The natural air, or atmosphere: atmospheric air. When pure, it consists of about 20 parts (in the hundred) of oxygen and 80 of nitrogen; it contains also a small quan- tity of carbonic acid, the proportion of which varies greatly according to circum- stances, being far more abundant in the air of a densely peopled city than in the country. Air Bag, or Air BimMer. See Vesica Natatokia. Air, Fixed. [A'er Fix'us.] Car- bonic acid gas. Air, Iu-Siam'ma-ble. Hydrogen gas. Air PtsBiip. A machine by which the air in a vessel may be withdrawn. Air, Vi'tal (formerly called dephlo- gisticated air, empyrial air, etc.) is a term applied to oxygen gas, from its being indispensable to life. Akinesia. See Acixksia. Al. The Arabic article signifying the, prefixed to many terms formerly in use; as al-chemy, al-kahest, al-cohol, etc. A'la,* plural A'la». [Supposed to bo a contraction of axil'la, tho armpit.] 23 A wing. Applied, in Anatomy, to parts, from their resemblance to a wing, as alee nasi, wings of the nose, etc.; also, to the armpit. In Botany it is applied to the side petals of papilionaceous flowers, and angles formed by leaves or stalks with their branches, etc. Al-a-bas'*er. [Lat. Alabasfri'tes, and Alabaster; Gr. dXj(3a<rrjA>;, and d\a- Bairpov.'] A species of white gypsum (sul- phate of lime), used for ornamental pur- poses. The name is also sometimes ap- plied to a form of carbonate of lime. Al-a-bas'trum.* [From the same.] A term applied to the five green leave3 forming the calyx of some flowers before the expansion of the bud, from a sup- posed resemblance to an alabaster box. Ala? Ma-jo'res.* ( Larger Wings.) Another term for the labia externa of the pudenda. See Labia Ploendi. A'lpe Mi-no'reS.* ( Lesser Wings.) A term applied to the two small folds formed by the nymphee. Aire Wa'si.* ( Wings of the Nose.) The lateral or movable cartilaginous parts of the nose. Ala? Ves-per-til-I-o'nis.* (Bat's Wings.) The broad ligaments situated between the uterus and the Fallopian tubes. Ala?forirnis. See Aliform. A-la'lI-a.:|: [From a, priv., and XaXtaj, to speak.] A defect of articulation. A-Saii'lEiie. A starch-like powder, ob- tained from the Angelica Archangel ica. A-la'res Ve'nav* [See At.aius.] The superficial veins at the bond of the arm. A-la'rI-a ©s'sa.* The lateral pro- cesses of the sphenoid bone. A-Ia'ras,* plural A-la'res and A-Ia'- ri-a. [From oVo, a wing.] Wing-like: applied to the pterygoid processes of the sphenoid bone, to a ligament within the knee-joint, and to the inner veins of the bend of the arm. A'late. [Ala'tHs; from a'la, a wing.] Winged, as certain stems and leaf-stalks having side membranes. Al'bi-cans.* neuter plural Albiean- tia, al-be-kan'shc-a. [From al'bico, to grow white.] Applied (in the plural) to two small bodies on the base of tho brain, the Corpora albicantia. Al-M-easi'Iis.* [From al'bu* white/' and cau'lis, a stem.] Having a white stem : albicau'line. Al-bl-itae'ty-lus,* or Al-bo-«lae'ty- lus.:;: [From al'btis, white, and 6aicrv- Xoj, a linger.] Having white, digitated wines.$