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So called from its likeness to a piece of fine paper. See Amnion-.
Poudre de, invented by some friar of the Carthusian order. See Antimonium.
(from
to gape.) See Oscitatio. Hence, in English, a chasm.
See Cucumis AEgyptia.
(From
to throw out, and
a tooth.) So the Greeks call those animals whose teeth grow to a great length out of their mouths, as the boar and the elephant.
(Quasi
manus,
col/igo.)
A general term for all sorts of com and pulse, because they are collected by the hand.
(From
a lip, and
an evil.) The lip-evil. A swelling of the lips. See Cancrum oris, and Labri-sulcium.
(From
winter.) See Pernio.
(From the same.) Cold, shivering.
(From
the hand, and
to touch.) Scratching.
So named from the likeness of its blossoms to the fingers of the hand; called also leucoium luteum, viola lutea, common yellow wall-flower. Cheiranthus cheiri Lin. Sp. Pi. 924.
The stalks are woody and brittle; the leaves oblong, narrow, sharp pointed, smooth, and of a dark green colour; the flowers numerous, yellow, tetrapetalous, open successively on the tops, are followed by a long slender pod, containing reddish flat seeds. It grows wild on old walls and among rubbish, and flowers in April and May.
The flowers have an agreeable smell, but to the taste are nauseously bitter and pungent. Water takes up all their active matter; but no essential oil is obtained by distillation, though in this way a water is obtained that possesses much of the flavour of these flowers. They are reckoned among the nervines, deobstruents, diuretics, and antiparalytics.
(From
a hand, and
a physician.) A surgeon; called also chirurgus. Hence ehciriaticus, a term appropriated to chirurgical remedies and operations. V. Chirurgia.
(From
to labour with the hand.) Handling, or a manual operation.
Surgery.
LronomIA,(from
to exercise with the hands.) Chironomia. An exercise mentioned by Hippocrates, which consists of peculiar gesticulations of the hands.
 
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