Ana

Colupa An Indian plant mentioned in the Hortus Malabaricus, whose genus is not determined. Its juice is said to be useful in epilepsies, and to cure the bite of the naja.

Anacollema

(From to agglutinate).

It is the same as frontale, only that it is always made of agglutinants or drying powders. Junker describes an anacoltema frontale for stopping bleeding of the nose. See Cataplasma.

Anacomide

(From to repair,) to recover a person after sickness.

Anactorium

See Gladiolus.

Anacyclei

(From to wander about).

Circulatores, mountebanks. See Agyrtae.

Anacyriosis

(From and authority)

Hippocrates, in his treatise on decency, advises physicians to keep up their authority, and the dignity of their profession, which he expresseth by this word.

Anadendromalache

(From a tree, and the mallow). See Althaea.

Anadiplosis

(From reduplico). A frequent reduplication of fevers. Blancard.

Anadosis

(From to distribute). A distribution of the fluids, and consequently a part of nutrition. See Distributio.

Anadrome

(From upwards, and to run). Hippocrates uses this word to signify pains from the lower to the upper parts of the body.

Anaesthesia Anaisthaesia

(From α, non, and sensio,) also anodynia. Insensibility, or loss of feeling by the touch. A resolution of the nerves occasioning a loss of feeling; generally a symptom of palsy: the same as stupor. It is in the locales, dysesthesia, of Cullen.

Anaglyphe

(From 'to engrave). See

Calamus scriptorius.

Anagyris

(From Anagyris, a city in Attica,) Non Foetida. See Cytisus alimnus. - Fatida Lin. Sp. Pi. 534. The smell is rank, and the taste bitter. It is used as a cathartic and emmenagogue.

Analces

From α, neg and strength).

Weak, effeminate. Hippocrates uses this word as an epithet for the Asiatic nations.

Analdes

(From α, neg. and to increase).

Not increasing. Hippocrates applies this word to fruits growing about the river Phasis.