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Italorum, (from Clymenes, who first used it). See Androsaemum.
(From its resemblance to a shield, clypeus). See Aspera arteria.
A shield. It is supposed to be an instrument used in the ancient baths to increase or diminish their heat, by admitting or excluding air; so called from its resemblance.
(From
to wash out, a clyster). See
(From clissus and forma, a likeness). A distillation of such substances as are subject to take fire and fulminate by a tubulated retort.
See Hippophaes.
(From
to scratch or rasp). See
Carthamus; also the seeds of the carthamus.
Any part connected with the tibia. Galen.
E'us, (from
the tibia, and
the toe; so named from its origin and insertion). See Extensor digitorum longus.
Sec Thymalaea.
the same as cnismos, and cnyma, (from
to scratch). That eager scratching observed in brutes; but it more generally means the itching itself.
(From the same). It is a species of thymalaea; a rasp, which is also called cnester, and particularly a rasp for scraping cheese.
(From
cnicus, and
oil). Oil made of the seed of cnicus. Its virtues are the same with those of the oleum ricini, but in an inferior degree.
A name of the trifolium.
(From
to scratch). The heads are surrounded with a crown, formed of a complication of numerous leaves. Many of the species of the former genus are removed to that of carduus and attractylis, q.v
That used as a purge by Hippocrates is supposed to be the carthamus; but modern botanists exclude it from the species of this plant.
Cnicus albis maculis notatus. See Carduus Lacteus Syriacus.
Cnicus sylvestris. See Carduus Benedictus.
(From
to scratch). See Urtica.
(From
the nettle, and
oleum). Oil made of the cnidia grana.
See Thymalaea.
Cnidia grana. Cnidian berries; called AEtolion, cocca cnidia, coccalos. Daphne gridium Lin. Sp. Pi. 511. These berries are highly acrid and poisonous.
(From
nettle). An itching and stimulating sensation, such as is excited by the nettle.
 
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