Cotula

(See Cotyle and Cyathus). A twelve ounce measure; and sometimes the appellation of bugs. See Cimex.

Cotula flore luteo radiato. Sec Buphthat.mum.

Cotula foetida, (from cos, a whetstone). A kind of camomile, with leaves like a whetstone. See Cha-mjemelum foetidum.

Cotyla

(From a cavity). See Cotyle.

It is any deep cavity in a bone, in which any other bone is articulated; but generally used to express the cavity which receives the head of the thigh bone. It also signifies a deep sinus surrounded with large lips, or any cavity like the glene, but deeper.

Cotyle Cotyla

Or Cotula, (from the among the ancients it was a chinking cup, or any thing which had a cavity, as the hollow of the hand. Among the Greeks it was a measure, and is nearly the same as the hemina of the Romans, which held nine or ten ounces. See Cyathus.

Cotyledones

(From the same). Cotyledons; acetabula; certain glandular bodies adhering to the chorion of some animals: but no such substances are observed in the human chorion.

Cotyledum Alterum

See Crassula.

Coum

See Colchicum.

Coup

De Soleil. See Ictus Solaris.

Couradi

See Paianeli.

Courap

(Indian.) The modern name for a distemper very common in Java and other parts of the East Indies. It is a herpes on the axillae, groins, breast, and face; the itching is almost perpetual, and the scratching is followed by great pain, with a discharge of matter, which fixes the linen firmly to the skin. Courap is a general name for any sort of itch; but this distemper is thus called by way of eminence. It is so contagious that few escape it. For the cure gentle and repeated purging, and externally the sublimate in a small quantity, are employed. See Bontius de Medi-cina Indorum.

Courbaril

The American name of the tree which produces the gum anime. Called also locusta; animifera arbor Brasiliana; Brasiliensis arbor siliguo-sa; cancamum Graecorum; ceratia diphyllos; ictaiba; courbaril. Hymenaea coubaril Lin. Sp. Pi. 537. It grows in many parts of the West Indies, particularly in the Brasils. See Anime.

Courondi

It is a tall evergreen, which grows in the East Indies; the juice of its leaves and the kernels of its fruit are astringent, and used with whey to cure diarrhoeas and dysenteries. Rheed's Malabar, 4 tab. 50. Raii Hist.

Couros

So Hippocrates called the child in the womb when perfected there. See Conceptio.

Couroy

MoelLI. A shrub growing in sandy places in the East Indies: the bark and root boiled in milk are esteemed an antidote against the poison of serpents. It has not yet found a place in botanical systems. Raii Hist.

Couscous

The African name of a paste made of the flour of millet, with some flesh; and, when eaten, a small quantity of lalo is also put. It is much used as food about the river Senegal.

Couton

A tree which grows in Candia, resembling the walnut tree; arbor vinifera couton juglandi similis of Bauhine. When this tree is wounded, an agreeable liquor flows out, which resembles Orleans wine. Its genus is unknown.