Lexicon medicum, or, Medical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, botany, chemistry, materia medica, midwifery, mineralogy, pharmacy, physiology, practice of physic, surgery, and the various branches of natural philosophy connected with medicine : selected, arranged, and compiled from the best authors / by Robert Hooper.

Robert Hooper

Date:: 1832

Credit: Lexicon medicum, or, Medical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, botany, chemistry, materia medica, midwifery, mineralogy, pharmacy, physiology, practice of physic, surgery, and the various branches of natural philosophy connected with medicine : selected, arranged, and compiled from the best authors / by Robert Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$V ANjE discharge, of any thing by vomit; also dilatation, or i \\\. — Gahn. Anabro-'hk sis. (From ava and jipoxtot, to reab- 6orh.) The reabsorption of matter. Anabrochi smos. (From avaSpoxcoi, to reabsorb.) Anubrochtsmus. The taking up and removing the hair on the eyelids, when they become troublesome.— Galen, JEgintta, an«l others. ANABRO'SIS. (From avaftpooKw, to devour.) A corrosion of the solid parts, by sharp and biting humours.— Galen, AN AC A RDI I'M. (From ava, without, and /capita, a in-art.) Without heart; because the pulp ot the fruit, instead of having the seed enclosed, as is usually the case, has the nut growing out of the end of it. The name of a genus of plants. Class, Knneattdria; Order, Manogynia. An.h akdiuM occidentals. Thecashewuut. The oil of this nut is an active caustic, and employed as such in its native country: but neither it, nor any part of the fruit, is used medicinally in this country. It is a useful marking ink, as any thing Written on linen or cotton with it, is of a brown colour, which gradually grows blacker, and is very durable. Anai ardium orikntai.b. The Malacca bean. See Avieennia tomentosa. AXACATIIA'RSIS. (From ova, and Ka6atpop.ai, to purge up.) An expectoration of pus, or a purgation by spitting, contradistinguished from catharsis, or evacuation downwards. In this sense the word is used by Hippocrates and Galen. Blauchard denotes, by this word, medicines which operate upwards, as vomiting, &c. ANACATHA'RTIC. (Anacatharticus; from ava- Kndatpofiai, to purge upwards.) Promoting expecto- ration, or vomiting. Ana'chron. Mineral alkali. ANA'CLASIS. (From aj/axAaw, to bend back.) A reflection or recurvature of any of the members, accord- ing to Hippocrates. ANA'CLISIS. (From ova/cAtvio, to recline.) A couch, or sick-bed.—Hippocrates. Anaco'i hk. (From avaKwxtu, to retard.) Delay in the administration of medicines; also slowness in the progress of a disease.—Hippocrates. ANACCELIA'SMUS. (From ava, and KoiXta, the bowels.) A gentle purge, which was sometimes used to relieve the lungs. Anacollb'ma. (From ava, and KoXXao), to glue together.) A collyrium made of agglutiuant sub- stances, and stuck on the forehead.—Galen. Asaconchou'smos. (From avaKoyxoXt^u), tosouud as ■ shell.) A gargarisni: so called, beans- the noise lie throat is like the sound of a shell.—ffalen ANACTE'SIS. (From avaKraopai, to recover.) Restoration of strength; recovery from sickness.— Hipp' rat s. ANACUPHI'SMA. (From avaKoxxptfr, to lift up.) A kind of exercise mentioned by Hippocrates, which Constats in lifting the body up and down, like our weigh jolt, and dumb bells. Anacyce'sis. (From avaKvnao>, to mix.) The mixture of substances, or medicines, by pouring one upon another. ANACY'CliEON. (From avcucvtckooi, to wander about.) Anacyvleus. A mountebank, or wandering quack. ANACYRI'OSIS. (From ava, and Kvpoc, autho- ritv.) By this word, Hippocrates means that gravity and authority which physicians should preserve among sick people ami their attendants. ANADIl'I.O SIS. (From avaoWXow, to redupli- cate.) A reduplication or frequent return of a parox- ysm, or disease.— Galen. Ana'dosis. (From avu>, upwards, and Si&u>p.i, to give.) 1. A vomit. 2. The distribution of aliment all over the body. 3. Digestion. Ana'drome. (From avoy, upwards, and Spcpw, to run.) A pain which runs from the lower extremities to the upper parts of the body.—Hippocrates. AsiE'DKS. (From a, priv. and a«5u.{, a shame.) Shameless. Hippocrates uses this word metaphori- cally for without restraint; and applies it to water rushing into the aspera arteria. AN^ESTHE SIA. (Anesthesia, e. f. Avaiadnoia; from a, priv. and ata8avop.at, to feel) Loss of the ANA sense of touch. A genus of disease in the clas» Locales, anil order DysiBSthesia of CullM. ANAGA'LLIS. (From avaycXau, to laugh; 06- CUring the spleen, it disposes persons to l>e cheerful.) 1. The name of a genus of plants in the Luuuean system. 2. The pharmacopceial name of the anagallis arrensis. Anaoallis arvf.nsis. _ The systematic name for tho Anagallis—fotiis iwlirisis, cattle procttmbnite of Lin- naeus. A small and delicately formed plant, which does not appear to possess any particular properties. Anaoaroai.i'ctum. (From ava, and yapyuptutv, tho throat.) A gargarisni, or wash for the throat. Anaoaro iri stcm. A gargle. ANAGLY'PHE. (From avayXu^o), to engrave.) A part of the fourth ventricle of the brain was formerly thus called, from its resemblance to a pen, or style. ANAGNOSIS. (From avaytvo>oKu>, to know.) The persuasion, or certainty, by which medical men judge of a disease from its symptoms.—Hippocrates. ANA'GRAPHE. (From avaypatpta, to write.) A prescription or receipt. ANALCINE. Cubic zeolite. A mineral found in granite, gneiss, trap rocks, and lavas, at Calton Hill, Edinburgh, in Bohemia, and Ferroe islands. From its becoming feebly electrical by heat, it has got this name. [Derived from AvuXkis. Weak.] Anale'ntia. A fictitious term used by Paracelsus for epilepsv. AXALE'PSIA. (From ava, and XauSavto, to take again.) A species of epilepsy, which proceeds from a disorder of the stomach, and with which the patient is apt to be seized very often and suddenly. ANALE'PSIS. (From ava\ap.6avw, to restore.) A recoverv of strength after sickness. ANALE'PTIC. (Analepticus; from avaXapSavai, to recruit or recover.) That which recovers the strength which has been lost by sickness. ANALO'SIS. (From avaXtaKto, to consume.) A consumption, or wasting. ANA LYSIS. (AyuXuoris; from ava\vu>, to resolve.) The resolution by chemistry, of any matter into its primary and constituent parts. The processes and ex- periments which chemists have recourse to, are ex- tremely numerous and diversified, yet they may be reduced to two species, which comprehend the whole art of chemistry. The first is, analysis, or decompo- sition; the second, synthesis, or composition. In analysis, the parts of which bodies are composed, are separated from each other : thus, if we reduce cinna- bar, which is composed of sulphur and mercury, and exhibit these two bodies in a separate state, we say we have decomposed or analyzed cinnabar. But if, on the contrary, several bodies be mixed together, and a new substance be produced, the process \s then term- ed chemical composition, or synthesis: thus, if by fusion and sublimation, we combine mercury with sulphur, and produce cinnabar, the operation is termed, chemical composition, or composition by synthesis. Chemical analysis consists of a great variety of opera- tions. In these operations the most extensive know- ledge of such properties of bodies as are already dis- covered must be applied, in order to produce simplicity of effect, and certainty in the results. Chemical ana- lysis can hardly be executed with success, by one who is not in possession of a considerable number of simple substances in a slate of great purity, many of which, from their effects, are called reagents. The word ana- lysis is often applied by chemists to denote that series of operations, by which the component parts of bodies are determined, whether they be merely separated, or exhibited apart from each other; or whether these distinctive properties be exhibited by causing them to enter into new combinations, without the perceptible intervention of a separate state ; and, In the chemical examination of bodies, analysis or separation can scarcely ever be effected, without synthesis taking place at the same time. A.N AMNE'SIS. (From avaptpunoKti), to remember.) Remembrance, or recollection of what has been done. — Galen. ANAMNESTIC. (From the same.) A remedy for bad memory, or whatever strengthens the memory. ANA'NAS. The egg-shaped pine-apple. See Bro- meha Ananas. Ana'nci. (From ova/KaJo), to compel.) Neces-$

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