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(From
to break or distort). Galen explains it to be a distortion of the eyelids. Vogel defines it to be a spasmodic occlusion of the eye.
Subclavicle. According to Galen it is the first small rib of the thorax; from
below,
clavis, the clavicle.
(From
to lie down). See
See Enema.
(From the same). Embrocation. Coelius Aurelianus also interprets it by illisiones aquarum, dashings of water.
(From
to irrigate). Irrigation by a plentiful affusion of liquor on some part of the body.
(From
to supersaturate). Full, abundant; and when applied to stools, it means that they are purely or intensely bilious. Hippocrates uses it in both these senses.
See Gambogia.
(From
to cut in wood or metal). An excavation, hole, or pit. Hippocrates uses this word, De Art. et de Morb.
(From
and
to break). A fracture. See Fractura. Galen says,' a solution of the bone is called catagma, and elcos is a solution of the continuity of the flesh; that when it happens to a cartilage it hath no name, though Hippocrates calls it catagma. See Alphitedon.
(From contra,
frango). Remedies proper for cementing broken bones, or to promote a callus.
(From
deduco.) In Hippocrates' Epid. lib. vii. it means a region, and its circumjacent part.
See Epilepsia.
The plant that bears the faba sancti Ignatii.
(From
to dissolve, or destroy). It signifies a paralysis, or such a resolution as happens before the death of the patient; also that dissolution which constitutes death.
(From
secundum, according to, and
mensis, the month ). See Menses.
See Cichorilm.
(From
to draw, orpour water upon). A kind of lotion by infusion in water. Moschion de Morbis Mulierum.
(From the same). A lotion with hot water, expressed out of sponges, recommended by Marcellus Empiricus against irritable running ulcers of the head.
 
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