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Ivory, (from e and barrus, the elephant, because ivory comes from that animal,) see Spodium arabum.
Ebur fossile. See Unicornu.
(From e, with out, and calcar, a spur). In botany it means having no spur.
(From e and cauda, a tail). Not having the elongation of the base of a leaf, called its tail.
(From
to cast out). See
Diecbolion, hence Diecbolica.
(From
to cast out, or from
to be very hot,) ecchymata, ardentes papulae. Fiery pustules on the surface of the body.
(From
to become hot). See
(From Ex out of, and
a.
skin). Protuberances of the bones at the joint, which appear through the skin.
(From
and
topurge).
Remedies which, applied to the skin, are supposed to open the pores; but in general they are understood to be deobstruents: sometimes expectorants and purgatives are distinguished by this appellation.
(From
and
a juice). See
(From
to pour out). See Ecbrasmata.
Ma Arteriosum, (from the same). The false aneurism. See Aneurisma.
(From
to flow out,) is an excretion, expulsion, or removal of any excrementitious or morbid matter from the body, either by the bowels or any other convenient passage. It sometimes means the excreted matter itself. Apocrisis, a similar term according to Hippocrates, is applied to the contagious effluvia of the air, or to a morbid quality communicated to the air by exhalations, called miasmata.
(From
to bend, or turn aside).
See Luxatio.
(From
to cut off). The cutting off of any part.
(from
and
to cut). An ancient instrument, of the same use as the modern raspatory.
(From
and
dung,) coprocritica. Mild aperients,or gently purging medicines which assist the natural evacuation by stool. See Ca-thartica.
 
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