A dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by the late Richard D. Hoblyn.

  • Richard Hoblyn
Date:
1892
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    BER—BI barbiers. The name beriberi is that given by the Malibars to this disease; beri is Singalese for weakness, and, by iteration, im- plies great weakness. _ BE'RTIN, COLUMNS OF. Por- tions of the cortical substance of the kidney which run inwards between the pyramids. BE'RTIN, SPONGY BONES OF. The sphenoidal turbinated bones which partially close in the sphenoidal sinuses. BE'TA. The second letter of the Greek alphabet, employed occasionally to distinguish an ingredient of a body; beta-orcein is one of the constituents of orchil or archil; beta-resin, or sylvic acid, is one of the resins of colophony. See Alpha-orcein. BE'TAINE. An alkaloid ex- tracted from beetroot, beta vulgaris, hence the name. It is poisonous, and occurs as the result of the putre- factive decomposition of albuminous substances ; it has been extracted from human urine. BE'TEL. A famous masticatory employed in the East, consisting of the areca, betel, or pinang nut, the produce of the Areca Catechu, or Catechu palm. A portion of the nut is rolled up with a little lime in the leaf of the Piper betel, and the whole chewed. BE'TULIN. Birch-camijhor ; a chemical resinoid substance found in the bark of the Betula alba, or Birch-tree. BE'X (/3t]|, ^7)%^$, a cough). A Greek term iised by some nosolo- gists instead of the Latin term tussis, or cough. See Becliiea. BE'ZOAR {pdd-zahr, Persian, a destroyer of poison). A morbid concretion formed in the bodies of land animals to which many fanci- ful virtues were formerly ascribed. See Ellagic Acid. Bezoardics, A name given to a class of alexipharmic medicines, from the imputed properties of the bezoar. BI-. Two. A particle found in composition only. The older form was dui, as dui-dens for bi-dens. In chemical tenns this prefix de- notes two equivalents of the first- mentioned ingredient to one of the other, as &i-chromate of potash, i.e. two equivalents of chromic acid to one of potash. Compare Di-. 1. Bi-auriculate (auricula, an auricle). 1. Having two aui-icles, as the heart of mammalia, birds, and reptiles. 2. Having two aui'icle-like projections, as the base of certain leaves. Bi-basic salts. A class of oxygen- acid salts, which, in the language of the acid theory, contain two equivalents of base to one of acid, as the tartras potassa: et sodce, or Rochelle salt. 3. Bi-capsular (capsula, a little case). A designation of certain pericarjDS which consist each of two capsules, or seed cases in each flower. 4. Bi-carbonate. A salt contain- ing a double proportion, or two equivalents of carbonic acid to one of base. 5. Bi-carinate (carina, a keel). Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses. 6. Bi-ceps (caput, a head). Two- headed, or having two distinct origins, as applied to a muscle of the tliigh and of the arm. The interossei muscles are termed bicipites, from having each two heads. 7. Bi-concave (concavus, hol- lowed out). Concave or hollowed out on both sides ; a term applied to a vertebra. 8. Bi-congrcgate (congregatus, collected together). Bigeminate,
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