Cortical. The bark or external portion. Costiveness. Irregular and delayed motion of the bowels. Constipation. Cranial. Belonging to the skull. Crisis. The period of change; it may be to worse or to better. Cul-de-sac. A pouch. Cupping. Drawing blood by lancing, and the application of a heated cup. DECUSSATE. To cross each other. Defecation. Evacuation of the bowels. Dejections. Matter voided from the bowel. Delirium. Mental aberration. Deltoid muscle. A muscle passing over the shoulder and terminating at the centre and outer part of the upper arm. Depurative. Purifying. Removing impurities. Dextrine. A substance obtained from starch. Diagnosis. Discovery of a disease by its symptoms; discriminating between a disease and others with which it may be confounded. Diaphoretic. Inducing perspiration; sweating. Diaphragm. The muscle separating the chest and its contents from the abdomen and its contents. Diastaltic. Reflex action induced by the spinal marrow. Diathesis. Tendency of the constitution to a particular disease. Diathetic. Relating to predisposition to disease, Dietic, dietetic. Relating to the food and drink. Digestion. Conversion of the food into form suitable for nourishment and into refuse or excrement. Disinfectant. Purifying or cleansing from infection. Diuretic. Increasing by secretion the quantity of urine. Dram. One-eighth of an ounce, or a teaspoonful of fluid. Duct. Canal. Duodenum. The first part of the intestines. Dysmenorrhea. Painful menstruation. Dyspnea. Difficult breathing. E CONOMY. The parts constituting the body or the laws governing them. Effete. Worn out; useless. Effusion, Escape of a fluid. Elimination. Ejection by stimulating the secreting organs. Eliminatives. Agents which expel substances from the body, as by the skin, kidneys, etc. Emaciation. Loss of flesh. Embryo. The animal in its earliest existence in the uterus. Emesis. Vomiting. Emission. A discharge. Emulsion. A pharmacal compound of oil and water. Emunctory. Any organ of the body acting as the outlet of cffete and worn-out matter. Enceinte. Pregnant. Encephalon. The head; all within the head. Encysted. Covered with a membrane or sac. Endosmosis. Fluids passing through membranes into structures. Enema. Liquid injections into the bowel. Enervation. Weakness. Enteric. Intestinal. Entozoa. Worms. Epidemic. A disease attacking many individuals in a locality at the same time. Epithelial. Relating to the thin covering to the eyes, lips, mouth, intestines, and the like. Erosion. Corrosion; eating away. Erosis. Amatory passion. Eructations. Wind or gases raised from the stomach with some noise. Essence, essential. The active principle of plants. A diluted oil. Eustachian tube. A canal about two inches in length connecting the ear and back of the mouth (pharynx), Exacerbation. Increase in fever. Exanthematous. Attended with fever and skin eruption. Excito-nutrient. Affecting nutrition by reflex nervous action. Excrement, excrementitious. Matter ejected from the bowel. Excretion, excretive. The faculty of selecting and discharging from the system fluids, a in sweating and in urine, useless matter as in feces, and impurities by either. Exhaling. Breathing out; throwing off vapor. Expectorant. Remedies which loosen phlegm in the air-passages, and hence facilitate its discharge and relieve oppressed breathing. Expectorate. To discharge mucosities by coughing and spitting. Expiration. Exhaling air by the lungs. Extravasate. To escape from the containing vessel and permeate the surrounding tex FAR ARINACEOUS. Containing farina or flour. Fauces. The back of the mouth and upper part of the throat. Feces, fecal. That part of the food remaining after digestion and which is ejected at intervals from the bowels. Feculent. Foul. Fermentation. Chemical action and combination by which new substances are formed. Fibre, fibrous. The hard, elastic, organic particle which, aggregated, forms muscle and other tissues. Fibrine. An organic substance, fluid, coagulable, found in the blood, lymph, etc. Flagellation. Flapping the body with the corner of a wet towel or the snap of a whip. Fœtus, fœtal. The young of any animal during uterine existence. Pertaining to the un born. Follicle. A little depression throwing off moisture to keep the contiguous part soft and supple. Foreskin. The prolonged skin of the penis, which covers the glans or head. Fumigation. Disinfection by gas, smoke, or vapor. Function. The normal or healthy action of an organ. Fundament. The seat; anus. Fungus. Parasitical plant. GANGLION Masses of nerves resembling brain. Ganglionic. Composed of ganglia. Gangrene. Mortification; local death. Gastric juice. The digestive fluid secreted by the stomach. Generative. Productive. Genetic. Pertaining to the genital organs, Genitals. The generative organs. Germ theory. The theory of the propagation of disease by germs floating in the atmos phere. Gestation. The period of carrying the young in the womb. Glands, glandular. Organs of the body, each possessing vital properties peculiar to it self, as secretion of tears, milk, saliva, urine, excretion, etc. Glans. The conical end of the penis, covered by the foreskin. Gluten. The ingredient in flour (farinæ) which gives it adhesiveness. Grain. One-sixtieth of a dram. Graminivora. Grain-eating animals, Granular. Consisting of little grains, Granules. Little grains. Griping. The pains of colic. Gullet. The canal for food leading from the throat to the stomach. Gynecology. That part of the science of medicine devoted to the diseases of women. HE EOTIC. Debilitated; exhausted. Hereditary. Transmitted from parent to child. Hibernate, hibernation. A partial suspension of animation. through the winter, hibernate. Histogenetic. Tissue-form ng. Animals that sleep Hydragogues. Medicines producing copious, watery, alvine discharges. Hydrocarbons. Starch, sugar, and oils. Hydrogen. A light, inflammable gas, forming, by chemical combination, water and animal and vegetable matter.. Hygiene, hygienic. The science of the preservation of health. Hymen. A fold of membrane at the outer orifice of the vagina, found sometimes, but not always, in virgins. Hypertrophy. Increased nutrition and consequent growth. Hypnotic. Producing sleep. Hypochondriasis. Belief in the possession of an imaginary disease. Hypodermic. Under the skin. Hypodermic syringe. An instrument for injecting liquid remedies under the skin. [LEUM. The convoluted portion of the intestines. Impotence. Loss of sexual power; inability to copulate. Indications. The symptoms or conditions needing medication. Infection, infecting. The communication of disease by touch, food, drink, or the breath. Infecundity. Unfruitfulness. Infiltrate. To penetrate the pores of a part. Inflammation. A condition attended with heat, pain, redness, and swelling. Injection. Passing a liquid into a cavity of the body, through and by means of a syringe. Innocuous. Harmless. Inoculation. Taking a disease by contact with an abraded surface. Insolation. Sunstroke. Insomnia. Inability to sleep. Inspiration. Inhaling air by the lungs. Inspissated. Thickened by evaporation. Instinct. An inborn principle directing to health and self-preservation. Intestine, intestinal. to the intestines. The canal from the stomach to the anus; the bowels. Relating Invermination. Infested with worms. Iris. The colored membrane seen in the eyeball; it is blue in blue eyes, gray in gray eyes, etc. Irritation. Local excitement, or excess of vital action. KIDNEYS. Two organs, one on each side of the spine, internally and above the small of the back, which secrete the urine from the blood. Lachrymation. Weeping. Lacteal. Milky. Vessels containing chyle. Larynx. The Adam's apple of the neck; the upper part of the windpipe which contains the organs of voice. Lancinating. A deep and sudden pain, compared to the stab of a lanca. Leeching. Removing blood by the application of a leech Lesion. A diseased change. Leucocytes. White corpuscles of the blood. Leucorrhoea. Whites. Liquor sanguinis. The fluid part of the blood, holding in solution fibrine, albumen, etc. Liver. The great assimilating gland of the body. It is situated below the diaphragm or midriff, and above the stomach, bowels, and kidney, and extends from the base of the chest to the spine, and from side to side. Lobe. A rounded, projecting part. Loins. The small of the back, between the ribs and pelvis. Lungs. Two organs situated in the chest, one on each side, with the heart between; the organs of respiration. Lymph, lymphatic. The fluid secretion of the lymphatic glands, which is emptied inta the circulation. MACKINTOSH Cloth covered with waterproof material. Malaria. Poisoning emanations in the air, producing disease. Mammary gland. The female breast. Mastication. Chewing the food. Masturbation. Personal excitement of the sexual organs. Median line. An imaginary line dividing the body into the right and left side. Medullary. Pertaining to the marrow. Membrane, membranous. A thin, web-like structure covering parts and organs, and lining cavities. Meninges. Coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Mensis, menses. The monthly uterine flow during the middle age of women. Menstrual. Pertaining to the monthly flow. Mesentery. The folds of the peritoneum which hold the intestines in place. Metamorphosis. Transformation. Metastasis. Change in the seat of a disease. Miasm, miasmatic. The germs of disease floating in the air, which produce infection. Microscope. An instrument for magnifying minute objects. Micturate. To evactuate the bladder. Molar teeth. The sixth, seventh, and eighth teeth from the centre of the lips. Morbid. Diseased. Motor. Moving. Mucilages. The gummy principle of plants. Mucoid. Like mucus. Mucus, mucous. condition. A viscid fluid, which in health keeps the membranes in their proper Myopic. Near-sighted. NARCOTIC. A stupefying remedy; in large doses destroying life. Nausea. Sickness at the stomach: ineffectual effort to vomit. Navel. The round scar at the centre of the abdomen, marking the place of attachment of the cord previous to and at birth. Neuralgia. Nerve-pain. Neurine. The substance of which the brain is composed. Nitrogen, nitrogenous. The gas constituting four-fifths of the volume of the atmosphere. Noxious. Poisonous; harmful. Nucleus, nuclei. The germinal point in a cell: kernel. Nutrition. Increasing in growth, or supplying the materials for growth. OBCORDATE Half egg-shape and half heart-shape, Obesity. Excessively fat. Esophagus. The food-passage from the throat to the stomach. Estruation. Periodical sexual desire; heat. Oleaginous Oily. Ophthalmoscope. An instrument for examining the interior of the eye by concentrated and reflected light. Optic nerve. The nerve conveying visual impressions from the eye to the brain. Osmosis. Attraction of fluids for each other through moist membranes and their motion. Ossicles. Little bones. Ounce. One-sixteenth of a pound; in fluids, eight drams or teaspoonfuls Oxygen. The gas constituting one-fifth the volume of the atmosphere. It supports combustion PAD. A folded cloth used as a support. Palate. Roof of the mouth. Palatine arch. The arch, in the rear of the mouth, formed by the palate bone. Pancreas, pancreatic juice. A large gland in the abdomen, beneath and behind the stomach. Its secretion. Papillæ. Little raised points upon the surface; they can be seen upon the tongue. Papulose, papular. With dry pimples. Paralysis. To lose the power of motion in a part, or sensation, or both. Parasites. Animals or plants that subsist upon others. Parenchyma. The texture of organs like the liver, kidneys, etc. Parotid gland. A gland at the angle of the lower jaw, which secretes saliva and discharges it by a short tube upon the cheek near an upper molar (back) tooth. Paroxysm. The period of more aggravated symptoms, following an interval of compar ative freedom. Parturition. Childbirth. Pathology That department of medical science whose object is the knowledge of disease. Pelvis. The bony structure at the termination of the spine, enveloping and protecting the lower intestines, bladder, genitals, etc. Pentandria Monogynia. A name given to a class of plants having five stamens and one style. Percussion. Striking with the finger-tips to discover by the resonance the condition of internal parts. Perineum. The part between the genitals and the anus or tip of the spine, Periosteum. The tough membrane covering all bones. Peristaltic. The peculiar motion of the intestines which propels its contents forward, somewhat like the crawling of a worm. Peritoneum. The membrane lining the abdominal walls and covering the intestines. Petaloid. Resembling a leaf-stock. Petals. The colored leaves of a flower. Pharmacist, pharmaceutist. One who manufactures drugs. Pharmacy. The manufacture of drugs. Pharynx. The posterior portion of the cavity of the mouth, behind the palate, above the wind-pipe and gullet. The breath and food pass through it. Phosphorus, phosphates. A substance familiar to us in matches. It is a constituent of the brain and nerves. Phrenic nerve. The respiratory nerve. It arises in the neck, passes through it and the chest, and is mainly distributed to the diaphragm. Physiology. The functions of the organs of the body; the phenomena of life. Placenta. A fleshy body attached to the womb and by a cord to the child, supplying blood and nourishment before birth. Plasma. The fluid portion of the blood holding in solution fibrine, albumen, etc. Plethora. Abounding in blood: full-blooded. Pleura. A wetted membrane lining the walls of the chest and covering the outer surface of the lung. There are two. Plexus. A net-work of blood-vessels or nerves. Pneumogastric nerve. The great nerve distributed to the chest and stomach. Polypus. A kind of tumor. Post-mortem. After death. Prepuce. The prolonged skin of the penis which covers the glans or head. Probang. A whalebone rod with a sponge on one end. Probe. A wire for examining wounds, canals, etc. Prophylactic. Preventive. Prostate gland. A gland at the upper portion of the urethra surrounding it and touch ing the bladder. Psoas muscle. The great muscle which draws the thigh up to the abdomen. Puberty. That period of life, about the age of 13, when the procreative organs mos rapidly develop; hair grows about them and upon the face of the male, the breasts of the female enlarge, and, in fact, the period of youth has passed and that of manhood or womanhood arrived. Pubic bone. A bone in the lower abdomen immediately under that part of the surface covered with hair. Pulse. The beating or throbbing of arteries produced by afflux of blood from heart. Purgative. A medicine causing free alvine discharges, |