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Os, (from cymba, a boat; so called from its supposed likeness to a skiff). See Scaphoides os. Cymbalaria, (from cymbalum, a cymbal; from the resemblance of its leaves to an ancient cymbal; also called linaria). Ivy-leaved toad flax, or ivy wort. It grows on old walls in Italy and Switzerland; and hath the same virtues as the navel wort. See Androsaces. vol. I.
(From cymba, a boat). See Scaphoides.
See Carora.
See Cyma.
See Angina.
Medicines appropriated to the cynanche.
(From
a dog, and
a flower; because dogs are said to eat it). Sec Chamaemelum Foetldum.
(From
and
a man). A kind of melancholy delirium, in which the persons affected believe they are changed into dogs. Sometimes the term for hydrophobia.
See Cinara.
(Greek.) A small vessel to hold medicines.
(From
canis). Canine. Certain convulsions are called cynic spasms. See Sardonicus risus.
(From the Hebrew word cnis). Flies or gnats. Van Helmont.
See Carora.
(From
a dog, and
a herb). See Chamaemelum foetidum.
See Aconitum.
(From
a dog, and
dung). See Album Graecum.
(From
canis,
cabbage; because dogs are said to eat it as a cathartic.) See Mercurialis, Sylvest. and Hippomanes.
(From
canis, and
the cytisus; because it cures the distemper of dogs). See Cynosbatos.
From
a dog, and
to bite). Bitten by a mad dog.
(From
a dog). Canine.
(From
membrum virile, and
ligo). A ligature by which the prepuce is bound upon the glans; or the lower part of the prepuce.
(From
a dog, and
a tooth). See Canini dentes.
 
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