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A term used by Coel. Aurelianus, probably by mistake, for some other word. It implies, according to him, a rubbing of the posterior part of the shoulders and neck downwards.
(From
against, and
a shield,) a grenado, or battery: it signifies also the medicine which heals the wounds and bruises made by such an instrument.
A thick poultice of meal and herbs.
(From
which, among other significations, implies to render sleepy). A preternatural propensity to sleep. See Caros. Galen calls a coma by this name.
Cataphora coma, i. e. Apoplexia.
Cataphora Hydrocephanca,i.c. Apoplexia serosa. See Hydrocephalus.
(From
to fortify).
See Quadriga.
(From
to strike). A sudden stupefaction, or deprivation of sensation in any of the members or organs.
(From
to swallow down).
According to Aretaeus it signifies the instruments of deglutition. Hence, also,
(From the same). A pill. See
PlLula.
(From
to refrigerate).
A coldness without shivering, either universal or of some particular part. A chillness; or, as Vogel de'-fines it, an uneasy sense of cold in a muscular or cutaneous part.
(From
to fall down). It implies such a falling down as happens in apoplexies; or the spontaneous falling down of a paralytic limb, expressed often by decidentia.
Aqua. See Arquebusade. It is the same as Catapeltes.
Cat mint, (from catus, a cat; because they are fond of it). See Mentha cataria.
(From
to flow from).
See Catarrhus.
(From
to pour out).
A violent and copious eruption or effusion. Catarr-hexis,
is a copious evacuation from the belly, and sometimes even alone it has the same signification. In Vogel's Nosology it is defined a discharge of pure blood from the belly.
(From
to flow from).
A word applied to diseases proceeding from distillations of an acrid fluid.
(From
to tend downwards, and
tubercles). Tubercles tending downwards; or, as Galen says, those that have their apex on a depending part.
 
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