A comprehensive medical dictionary : containing the pronunciation, etymology, and signification of the terms made use of in medicine and the kindred sciences / with an appendix, comprising a complete list of all the more important articles of the materia medica, arranged according to their medicinal properties; also an explanation of the Latin terms and phrases occurring in anatomy, pharmacy, etc.; together with the necessary directions for writing Latin prescriptions, etc., etc.

  • Thomas, Joseph, 1811-1891.
Date:
1875
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Credit: A comprehensive medical dictionary : containing the pronunciation, etymology, and signification of the terms made use of in medicine and the kindred sciences / with an appendix, comprising a complete list of all the more important articles of the materia medica, arranged according to their medicinal properties; also an explanation of the Latin terms and phrases occurring in anatomy, pharmacy, etc.; together with the necessary directions for writing Latin prescriptions, etc., etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRONOUNCING EDICAL DICTIONARY. A, or an before a word beginning with a vowel or with h. [a or av.'] A prefix in compound words of Greek derivation, having a negative or privative force: as, tonic, possessing or imparting tone ; a-tonic, without tone; a-cephalous, without a head; aii-sesthetic, with- out perception; an-hydroiis, without water. A is also a French preposition, signi- fying to or at, and forming a part of certain surgical and- medical phrases, as d deux temps, 3, duh to>'°. At two times. Applied to the operation of lithotomy, in which the calculus, from cert dn causes, cannot be immediately extracted, and is therefore let alone till during the suppurating stage, when ex- traction may be more easily effected. AA. A contraction of the Greek word ana (wa), signifying, literally, up through or throughout; some- times equivalent to of each. Writ- ten in prescriptions after the names of several different medicines, to denote an equal quantity of each. AAA. Abbreviation for Amalgam. Ab. A Latin particle signifying from, off, away. Ab-ac'tus Ven'ter,* or Ven'ter Abac'tus.* [From ab, from, and a'go, ac'tum, to drive, to force.] Literally, a belly expelled or emptied by forcible means. A term in Medical Ju- risprudence for abortion induced by art. Ab'a-cus.* [From affa$, u(j<ikos, a mathematical table on which lines and figures were drawn.] An old name for a table used for medicinal preparations. ABD Abalienation, ab-al-yen-a'shim. [Abaliena'tio, o'nis; from ab, from, and aiie'no, aliena'tum, to estrange.] Formerly used for decay of the whole or part of the body; also, loss or failing of the senses or of the mental faculties. Abang'a, ab-ang'ga. The name of the fruit of a palm-tree growing in the island of St. Thomas (West Indies). The seeds are considered very useful in diseases of the chest. Ab-ar-tic-n-la' tion. [Abarticnla'- tio, o'nis; from ofe, from, and articu- la'tio, articulation.] A kind of ar- ticulation admittiug of free motion. See Diarthrosis. Ab-bre'vl-iit-ed. [Abbi*evia'tus; from abbre'vio, abbrevia'tum, to short- en.] Shortened, as when the cup is shorter than the tube of the flower. Ab-bre-vi-ii'iion. [Abbrevia'tio, o'nis ; from the same.] A part of a word shortened by cutting off one or more of its latter syllables. Applied to many initial and medial letters, and contrac- tions, of medical terms, which will be found in their alphabetical order. AbcSs. See Abscess. Abdoin. Abbreviation for Abdo'men. Ab-do'men,* gen. Ab-doni'i-itis. [From ab'do, ab'dere, to hide.] The largest cavity of the body; the belly. The same region in the lower animals. See Alvus, Im-tjS Venter, Venter. Ab-dom'i-nal. [Abdomiua'lis; from abdomen.'] Belonging to the abdo- men ; ventral. Abdom'iiial Aor'ta. That portion of the aorta situated below the diaphragm.