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(From alaris, winged, and externum, outward). See Pterygoides externus.
(From ala, the arm-pit). The inner of the three veins in the bend of the arm, because it comes immediately from the arm-pit: this is attended with an artery, and the median with a nerve; but the outer one, as P. AEgineta long since observed, is safe for bleeding.
In botany. The term means growing out of the angles formed by the branches of the stem.
An. Lithargyrum.
Burst brass. See AEs ustum.
Alaterno Ldes, {alaternus, | SeeCassine. |
Alaternus. |
(From alatus, winged). Those who have prominent scapulae are so called, and are subject to consumptions; since, from the pressure of the muscles in consequence of this disadvantageous attachment, the sides of the sternum are compressed.
--------processus, or alares. The wing-like processes of the os sphenoides.
Sec Nitrum.
See Ocimastrum.
(from albadar, an Arabian word). See, Sesamoidea.
See Sacrum os.
(From albus,white). See Albumen ovi.
Salt of urine.
(From albahrah, a Chaldaean word). A species of the white leprosy, see Alphius. It also signifies the white poplar, Albarus nigra is the lepra Graecorum. Avicenna calls the lepra icthyosis by this name.
(From albeo,whiten-ing,) called blanching of metal.
(From albis,) whiteness. In urine is observed four sorts of whiteness, viz. the crystalline, the snowy, the limy, and the limpid.
White pustules upon the face. See Albora. It is also a name given to staves-acre, because its juice is said to remove these pustules. See Staphis agria.
See Galbanum.
Sublimate. Sec Merc corrosivis alb.
Corpora, (from albeo). Willis's glands. See Cerebrum.
Orpiment. See Auripigmex-tum.
(From the whiteness of its blossom). See Gnaphalium.
The abbreviation for Albin Eleazer, a natural history of insects. London, 1720, 4to.
Pitch from the bark of the yew-tree.
See Urina.
O VI. White of an egg. See Albumen ovi.
A sort of itch, or rather leprosy. Paracelsus says, it is a complication of the morphew, serpigo, and leprosy. When cicatrices appear in the face like the serpigo, and then turn to small blisters of the nature of morphew, it is the albora. It terminates without ulceration, but by fetid evacuations in the mouth and nostrils: it is also seated in the root of the tongue. Internal medicines, as well as corrosive ones, are forbidden.
Mercury. See Argentum vivum.
See Crucibulum.
Ceruss. See Plumbum.
 
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