The Philadelphia medical dictionary : containing a concise explanation of all the terms used in medicine, surgery, pharmacy, botany, natural history, chymistry, and materia medica. Compiled from the best authorities.

  • John Redman Coxe
Date:
1808
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    BAC . hcff, slate or scissile alum. . izeg, vitriol. . Izemafor, minium, or red lead. Azemator, native cinnabar. Azensali, a species of rock moss. Azvmar, calcined copper. Azius, assius, asius. Azob, a species kof alum ; alumen saccharinum. Azoch, ) the mercury of philoso- Azoth, 5 phers ; an imaginary uni- versal remedy; the liquor of sub- limed quicksilver; brass. Azom, heated, or boiled butter. Azot, 1 a name in the new che- Azotr, Lmistry for the basis ofat- Azotum, J mospherical air, and of ammonia, nitrous acid, &c. azotic gas ; mephitic or phlogisticated air ; atmospheric mephitis ; ni- trogene. . izragar, verdigrise. Azub, alum. BAD Azul, lapis lazuli. Azur, red coral. Azurium, a chemical preparation de- scribed by Albertus Magnus, of quicksilver, sulphur and sal ammo- niac. Azutum, the Armenian stone. j / ' > the os sphenoides. Azyges, } * Azygos, without its fellow. morgagni, a muscle of the mouth. Azygos processus, a process of the os sphenoides. Azygos uvula, a muscle of the uvu- la. Azygos vena, a vein within the tho- rax arising from the vena cava su- perior. Azymar, native cinnabar ; vermillion. Azymos, \ unleavened, unfermented Azynnts,) bread. B. /? IN the chemical alphabet sig- > nifies quicksilver. Babuzicarius, the night mare. Boeotian, the cabbage seed, or rape. Bacca, a berry ; a pearl; in botany, a fleshy, or pulpy pericarpium, the seeds within which have no other covering or cell. Bacca Monsfielliensis, the great flea- bane. Baccalia, bay, or laurel tree. Baccantes, like to, or resembling ber- ries. Baccar, > great fleabane ; plough- Baccharis, 3 man's spikenard. Bacca, berries ; small roundish fruit growing scattered upon trees and shrubs, and thereby distinguished from those which grow in clusters, termed Acini. Bacca Bermudenaea, soap, or Bermu- das berries ; the fruit of the sapin- dui saponaria of Linnaeus. Bacca junipcri, juniper berries. Bacca: laur/, laurel berries. norlanclica, fruit of the rubus arcticus, or shrubby strawberry. Bacca piscatoria, cocculus Indicus. Bacchia, a pimpled face ; gutta ro- sacea ; the ivy. Bacchus, a heathen god ; wine ; the mullet fish. Baccifer, bacciferous ; berry bearing. Baccinia, the black-berry. Baccili, ] lozenges shaped into small Barilla, 'rolls ; small scented can- Bacilll, fdles ; a stick ; an instru- Bacculi,) ment in surgery ; also some chemical instruments. Bacillum, a lozenge ; a stick for stir- ring. Bacoba, the American Banana tree. Baculus, bacillum. Badatis, the herb Clava Herculis. Badiaga, a*small spongy plant of some northern countries, used to take away the livid marks of blows and brai <