This section is from the book "The London Medical Dictionary", by Bartholomew Parr. Also available from Amazon: London Medical Dictionary.
(From the singular
unfortunate). Those days in which an acute distemper comes to a fatal crisis, or on which there is no crisis at all, when expected.
(From
and
to corrupt). A medicine to procure abortion.
Anabortion. (From.
to corrupt. ) See Abortus.
The ramification of the veins.
(of
from, and
to grow).
An appendix, Any thing that proceeds from another.
(From
to produce; or from
and
to grow). Any thing attached to, or ' growing from another, as boughs and branches: in anatomy it mostly signifies the projection of a bone. It is also called afifiendix,firobole,echfihysis,firocessus, productio, projectura, and proluberantia.
Apophtsis mastoidea, or manillaris. A process of the petrous part of the temporal bone.
Apophysis gracilis. The apophysis of the neck of the malleus in the ear.
And Apoplecticae, (from
and
to strike). A name of the internal jugular veins, called from their appearing full and turgid in apoplexies. See Jugulares venae.
Medicines against the apoplexy, so called instead of antipoplectica. Vogel gives this appel-lation to a continued fever coming on upon an apoplexy.
(From
and
the mind).
See Lipothymia.
(From
and
to stretch out).
\ play with balls in the gymnastic exercises.
(From α, priv. and
a duct). Restlessness: uneasiness occasioned by obstructed perspiration, or any stoppage of the natural secretions. See Alysmos.
(
defluxus, from
and
to flow from). See Contagio. It means also the falling off of hair. See Alopecia.
(From
from, and
to strike with a hatchet). A species of fracture when part of a bone is chipped off; called also de-asciatio.
 
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