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(because it breaks like
a stalk). A species of fracture, when the bone is broken transversely so as not to cohere.
(From
a stalk). An epithet for that juice of the asafoetida plant which flows from the stalk, by way of distinction from that which flows from the root, and is called
rizias. Its stalk is styled caulos.
And Caulos, (from kalah, a Chaldean term). The stalk. See Caudex. It is a name also for both the penis and vagina; and in corn and grass it is called the blade. It is a name for a cabbage or colewort. See Brassica sativa.
Caulis florida. See Cauliflower.
(From
cabbage). See Brast sica.
(From
to burn). The heat of the atmosphere; or of the body in a fever.
See Areca.
(From
uro, to burn). See Ambusta.
(From
to burn). See
Febris ardens.
(From the same). In Hippocrates signifies a burning heat and inflammation.
Caustics, (from
to burn). See Escharotica.
(From
uro,to burn). See Ardens febris and Dipsas.
Dicta Thora parou. See Cajan.
(From cavus, hollow). A cavern. See also Pudendum Muliebre.
(From caviar). It is the pickled roe of the sturgeon.
And Cavilla, (from cavus). See Astragalus, and also Cuneiforme os.
"Ta,(from the same). See Auricula.
Ca Yan. See Piper Indicum.
See Fagara major.
SeeCassada.
(From
because it pricks at the extreme parts). See Carduus haemorrhoidalis..
See Celastus inermis.
(From
to split, or divide). A fissure or fragment.
L'ra Brasiliensibus. (Indian.) Guacu, or Miri. A tree which grows in Brasil. Its bark is bitter and astringent, and the decoction is employed in baths and fomentations for the relief of pains in the limbs, diseases from cold, tumours of the feet and belly, itch, and other cutaneous diseases. It is figured by Margrave in his plants of Brasil, p. 100, but its botanical place has not been ascertained.
(From
to spring). A gall of the oak.
So called because it springs suddenly from the oak. See Gallae.
(From
to Aide). The net in which women confined their hair (Hippocrates). It is also applied to one of the stomachs of ruminating animals. See Abomasum.
 
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