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(From and the way through).
See Diexodos.
Cia,(from bis, and domus). A vegetable which has no hermaphrodite flower; but in which the male flower is upon one plant, and the female flower upon another. It is the twenty-second of Linnaeus's classes.
(From and the flower of the vine,) an epithem in Trallian against the cholera morbus.
(From to persecute). See Palpitatio cordis.
A collyrium in Oriba-sius, so called from Dion its author.
The name of a plaster for abscesses, invented by Hera the Cappadocian; also called diony-sianum emplastrum.
(From Bacchus, or wine).
See Androsaemum.
Horned. Certain bony eminences near the temples; or rather the race distinguished by those prominences; from Dionysius, a name of Bacchus, described as horned.
See Lepidium. Dionysos. The name of a collyrium in .AEtius; one resembling it is found in P. AEgineta, called collyrium malabathrinum, and isotheon.
(From and autumnal fruit).
The name of a medicine in Coel. Aurelianus, used against the quinsy.
(From to see through). An instrument for dilating any natural cavity, the better to see its state, as the speculum uteri.
Glasses employed to view distant objects, where the rays pass through the lens, in opposition to those where the object is examined after reflection. Spectacles are dioptrical instruments.
(From to see through).
The operation which consists in dilating the natural passages with a dioptra.
(From and a vetch). A medicine containing vetches.
Or Diorosis, (from and serum,) a conversion of the humours into serum and water.
(From and right, or from to direct ). The restitution of a fractured limb to its natural situation.
 
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