Diazoma

(From and to surround).

See Dlaphragma.

Diazoster

A name of the twelfth vertebra of the back; called from the belt, which rests on it.

Dicenteton

See Diacenteton; the name of a collyrium described by P. AEgineta.

Dichalcon

A weight equal to one third of an obolus.

Dichasteres

(From to divide). See Incisores.

Dichophyia

(From double, and nascor). It is a distemper of the hairs, when they split at the points.

Dichotomus

(From double, and seco). In botany it means forked.

Dichotophyllon

(From double, and a leaf). See Ceratophyllum.

Dicocta

(From bis, and coquo, to boil). Water first heated, then cooled with snow.

Dicotyledones

(From twice, and cotyledon). See Cotyledon-.

Dicraeus

(From twice, and to distinguish). See Bifidus.

Dicrotus

Or Bis-feriens, (from twice, and to strike). A pulsation of an artery which strikes the finger a second time before the usual interval, similar to what appears from a hammer striking the anvil, and afterwards rebounding. Solano first observed it, and supposed it a certain sign of an approaching critical haemorrhage from the nose. It is also called a re-bounding pulse.

Dictamnites

(From dittany). A wine medicated with dittany.

Dictyoides

(From a net, and form).

Net like. See Rete mirabile. Didyme, (from double). See Bifolium.

Didymaea

(From the same). The name of a cataplasm mentioned by Galen, named from the double use to which he applied it.

Didymi

(From the same). See Geminus, Testes, and Cerebellum

Didymus

(From or two). A twin. In botany it means double, or having two of each sort.