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

  • Hoblyn, Richard D. (Richard Dennis), 1803-1886.
Date:
1859
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    [ANCYLOS0ISSIS' } See ^%fcVl [ANKYLOBLEPHARON, ) „ . [ANCYLOBLEPHARON. J &ee An~ kyloblepharon.] ANCON (ayxuv). The elbow. Hence— 1. Anconeus. A muscle which assists in extending the forearm. 2. Ancono'id (eiSos, likeness). Elbow- like ; applied to a process of the cubit. ANCYROIDES {HyKv^a, an anchor; tlbos, likeness). A former designation of the coracoid process of the scapula, from its likeness to the beak of an anchor. ANDROCEUM (avhp, a man). A term applied to the male apparatus in plants, commonly called the stamens — the apices of old botanists. ANDROGYNUS {avfip, a man; ywi), a woman). A hermaphrodite; a lusus na- turae, in which the organs of generation appear to be a mixture of both sexes. [Having male and female flowers on the same plant.] [ANDROMANIA (avnp, a man; uavia, madness. Insane love of man, nympho- mania.] [ANDROMEDA ARBOREA. Sorrel Tree. The leaves of this tree have a pleasant, acid taste, and a decoction of them forms a pleasant drink in fevers.] ANDRUM. A species of hydrocele, pe- culiar to the south of Asia, and described by Kaempfer. [ANEMIA. See Ancemia.'] [ANEMONE PRATENSIS. Meadow Anemony. A plant of the order Ranun- culaceaB, believed by Stb'rck to be useful in diseases of the eyes, in secondary syphilis and in cutaneous eruptions. There are several closely allied species, which possess the same medical properties.] ANEMOMETER (ave^os, wind; uirpov, measure). An instrument for measuring the strength, or velocity of the wind. ANENCEPHALIA (a, priv.; iy^aXoi, the brain). The state of an anencephalus ; the absence of a greater or less part of the cerebral portion of the head. Geoffrey St. Hilaire justly distinguishes— 1. Heal Anencephalia, or entire absence of the brain, which might be denominated hol-anencephalia (#Aoj, entire), or pant- anencephalia (naS, navrbs, all). 2. Cyst-anencephalia (kvotis, a bladder), or the vesicular brain, in which, instead of a brain, a bladder is found filled with fluid. 3. Ber-anencephalia (Sipn, the neck), in which only a small portion of the brain exists, resting on the cervical vertebrae. 4. Pod-anencephalia (novs, noSbs, a foot or stalk), in which a brain indeed exists, 4* but it is situated outside the cranium, at- tached as it were to a stalk. 5. Kot-anencephalia (vdros, the back), in which the brain is not within the skull, but (at least in great part) is thrust through a fissure of the back part of the head, and so produces, like a spina bifida, not-encephalocele. ANENCEPHALUS (a, priv.; lyicicpaXos, the brain). A monster without brains. [ANEROID (a, priv.; ar\p, air). A de- fective term intended to signify without air.] [Aneroid Barometer. A newly invented instrument, consisting of a flat circular box, about a quarter of an inch in depth, and made of some white metal, having the upper and under surfaces corrugated in concentric circles. This box being ex- hausted of air, through a short tube, which is subsequently made air-tight by solder- ing, constitutes a spring, which is affected by every variation of pressure in the at- mosphere, the corrugations on its surface giving it greater elasticity.] AN'ESIS (avirim, to remit). A remission, or relaxation of a disease, or symptom. ANETHUM GRAVEOLENS. Common or Garden Dill; a plant of the order Um- belliferce, much valued for the carminative properties of its fruit. ANEURYSM [ANEURISM] (avevpvvw, to dilate). The dilatation of a vessel or vessels. 1. The old distinction was between true and false aneurysm: the former compre- hends dilatation without rupture of any of the arterial coats; the latter, dilatation with rupture of some of the coats. 2. False Aneurysm admits of some dis- tinctions. When the extravasation is diffused, the disease has been termed a diffused false aneurysm; when circum- scribed, a circumscribed false aneurysm. The French writers term the former ane- vrisme faux primitif, the latter anevrisme faux consecutif 3. Active Aneurysm of the Heart. The increased muscular structure of the left ventricle of the heart, which frequently accompanies the cartilaginous thickening of the semilunar valves of the aorta. 4. Aneurysm by Anastomosis. A tumor consisting of a congeries of small and active arteries, absorbing veins, and in- termediate cells. The cellular substance through which these vessels are expanded, resembles the gills of a turkey-cock; or the substance of the placenta, spleen, oi uterus; or the naevi materni of infants. 5. Aneurysmal Varix. A particular kind of aneurysm, in which the blood effused from a wounded artery passes into a