Clitoridis Flos Terxatexsibus

A beautiful flower growing in the island of Ternate. The inhabitants boil and eat it; but no medical virtues are attributed to it.

Clitoridis musculus. Innes calls it erector clitoridis, and describes it as arising from the crus of the os ischium, internally covering in its ascent the crus of the clitoris, as far up as the os pubis. It is inserted into the upper part of the crus and body of the clitoris. Its use is to draw the clitoris downwards and backwards, and may serve to make the body of the clitoris more tense, by squeezing the blood into it from its crus.

Clitorismus

A morbid enlargement or swelling of the clitoris.

Cloaca

(Quasi colluaca, from colluo, to cleanse). A repository of filth. In comparative anatomy, it imports the canal in birds through which the egg descends from the ovary. It is remarkable, that the part which is next the ovary is jagged like the morsus diaboli, and fluctuates in the abdomen without any attachment to the ovary. It must, therefore, like the fimbriae of the Fallopian tube, be erected to grasp the ovum.

Cloath

Ng. See Coopertio.

Clonicus

(From to agitate). See Clonos.

Clonoides

(From the same). An epithet for a sort of pulse which is vehement and large, at the same time unequal in one and the same stroke.

Clonos

(From the same). also clonicus.

Any tumultuary, inordinate, interrupted motion. It is applied to the epileptic and convulsive motions. See Spasmus clonicus.

Clous

(French). See Cartophillus aromaticus.

Clunes

(From to cleanse, because they are the parts through which the alvine faeces are ejected). The buttocks; called also ephidsanae pygae: the two posterior and lower parts of the abdomen are separated by a fossa, which leads to the anus: each buttock is terminated downwards by a large fold, which distinguishes it from the rest of the thigh. They consist of skin, fat, and muscles, principally of the glutaei.

Clunesia

(From the buttocks). See Proctalgia.

Clupea

(From clypeus, a shield; so called from its shape). See Alosa.

Clus

Et Clus. Hist. An abbreviation of Caroli Clusii rarionrm Plantarum Historia.

Clus. Hisp. An abbreviation of Caroli Clusii rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatorum Historia.

Clus. cur. post. An abbreviation of Caroli Clusii Curae Posteriores.

Clusia

Flava Lin. Sp. Pi. 1495. A tree in Jamaica that produces a kind of turpentine called hog's gum.

Cluttoni Dom. Spiritus febrifugus. See Febrifugus spiritus, etc.

Clydon

(From to cleanse). A fluctuation and flatulency in the stomach and intestines.

Clyma

(From to cleanse). The faeces of silver and gold, which have been cleansed by washing.