Cardamindum Minus

(From and Indian cresses). See Nasturtium Indicum.

Cardegi Indi

See Folium.

Cardia

(From cor ). By this term the ancients meant the heart; but we call the upper orifice of the stomach cardia, from its vicinity to, and consent with, the heart. See Cor, Cardialgia, Meditullium. and Lipothymia.

Artkriae

Et Venae.

Cardiacus Morbus

(Falconer in the Memoirs of the Medical Society, vol. vi.) See Nervosa febris.

Cardimelech

(From cor, and the Hebrew term melek, a governor). A fictitious term in Dolaeus's Encyclopedia, by which he would express a particular active principle residing in the heart, appointed to what we call the vital functions.

Cardimona

See Cardialgia.

Cardiname Ntum

(From cordo, a hinge). A hinge-like articulation. See Diarthrosis.

Cardiogmus

(From to have a gnawing pain at the mouth of the stomach). Synonymous with Cardialgia.

Cardionchus

(From the head, and a tumour). See also Aneurisma praecordiorum.

Cardiotro Tus

(From the heart, and to wound). One who hath a wound in his heart.

Carditis

(From heart). See Inflammatio cordis.

Car

Do. A hinge. See Ginglymus.

Cardonet

See Cinara sylvestris.

Cardonium

In the phrase of Paracelsus, is wine medicated with herbs.

Cardopatium

See Carlina.

Carduo

Cnicus, (from carduus,a thistle, carthamus, the distaff thistle). See Atractylis.

Carebaria

(From the head, and heaviness). See Capiplenium.

Carena

The twenty-fourth part of a Drop.

Caretti

See Bonduch Indorum.

Careum Cari

(See Carum.) From Carta, the country from whence they were brought.

Carica

A dry fig, (from Carica, the place where they were cultivated). Sec Ficus sativa.

Caricum

Vel Carycum, (from Caricus, the inventor). The name of a medicine for deterring ulcers, prepared of the black hellebore, cantharides, and several other ingredients.

It is also the name of an oil mentioned in Athenaeus, lib. ii.

Carima

(Indian.) See Cassada.

Carim Curini

(Indian.) Justicia ecbolium Lin. Sp. Pi. 20. An Indian shrub, the bark of which is used in a decoction against the gout; and a decoction of the leaves against a disury. Raii Hist.

Carina

The keel of a boat or ship. In botany it is the inferior petal of a papilionaceous corolla; inclosing the stamens and pistil, usually shaped like a boat.

In zoology it is applied to the first rudiments of the spine of a chicken during its incubation.