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

  • Richard Hoblyn
Date:
1892
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by the late Richard D. Hoblyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

    107/842 page 95
    chlorino or solution of chloride of lime. 2. Woollen stuffs are bleached by exposure to the vapour of sulphurous acid. BLEACHING POWDER. Calx chloraia. Chloride of lime, formerly- called oxymiu'iate of lime, supposed to be a compouud of hypochlorite of lime with chloride of calcium, in the proportions of one equivalent of each. In solution it is employed as a disinfectant. Blcachincf liquid, eau de Javelle, or oxymuriatic alkaline water, is the above compound obtained in solution, by transmitting a sti-eam of chlorine gas through hydrate of lime suspended in water. BLEAR-EYE. Blearedness. A chronic catarrhal inflammation of the eyelids. See Lippitudo. BLEB. Fcmphix. A bulla, vesicle, or bladdery tumour of the skin, distended by a fluid. See Pemphigm. BLENDE {hlcnden, German, to 1 dazzle). Black-jack. Sulphide of : zinc, named in allusion to the bril- '. liancy of its crystals. BLENNOPHTHA'LMIA {^\iv- ; va, mucus, ocpdaX/xos, the eye). A 1 muco-purulent discharge from the 1 eye ; purulent conjunctivitis. BLENNORRHA'GIA {I3\^uva, 1 mucus, p7]yvvixi, to burst forth). . An excessive discharge of mucus ! from the urethra or vagina. BLENNORRHCE'A {^xiwa, ! mucus, (56CO, to flow). A discharge of inucus fi-om the urethra ; a term • synonymous with groreorrhcea. This term, as well as hlennorrha- gia, is used to denote purulent or . gonorrhceal ophthalmia. See Bap- torrhosa. BLENNO'SES (^SXeVva, mucus). The name given by Alibert to ' affections of the mucous mem- S branes. BLE'PHARA {$\t(papoy, the eye- lid). Plural of hlcpliaron, the eye- lid. Hence the following terms :— 1. Blepharitis. Inflammation of the eyelids ; purulent ophthalmia ; synonymous with blephar-ophthal- mia or -ophthalmitis. 2. Blephar-adenitis {aSriv, a gland ; adenitis, inflammation of a gland). Inflammation of the glands of the eyelids. 3. Blepharo-hlennorrhcea. Gon- orrhoea! ophthalmia ; occasioned by the direct application of gonor- rhceal or leucorrhceal matter to the eye. 4. Blcphar-oncdsis {oyKaicris, a puSing out). Tumour of the cellu- lar tissue of the eyelid ; it may be solid, pulpy, melicerous, or gela- tinous. 5. Blephar - ophthalmia. Oph- thalmia tarsi. Inflammation of the palpebral conjunctiva and edge of the eyelids. See Psorophthahnia. 6. Blcpharo-pldsly {ir\d(ra-w, to form). The operation for forming a new or artificial eyelid. Blepharo- cheilo-pldsty. An operation for re- storing the diseased conjunctiva by the introduction of fresh mucous membrane from the lip (xeiAos). See Plasty. 7. Blepharo-pUgia (ttAtjA^, a stroke). Paralysis of one or more of the muscles of the eyelid ; also called ophthalmoplegia. 8. Blepharo-2Msis {tttuxtis, a falling down). A falling of the upper eyelid ; inability to raise the upper eyelid, from relaxation of the integuments, or paralysis of the leva- tor palpebraj. 9. Blepharo-spdsmus {ffiraff^6s, a spasm). Spasm of the eyelid ; spas- modic action of the orbicularis pal- pebrarum muscle. BLETTING. A term applied' to that state of decomposition of ripe fruits, in which spots, or blcts, appear upon them.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3