Enteromphalos

(From and the navel). A rupture of the intestine at the navel. This seldom happens to women in labour, or from labour; but it often occurs in those debilitated by numerous births; to women who are fat and indolent.

Enteron

(From within). Internal and intestine. In Hippocrates Epid. 6. 4. ap. 3. ente-ron signifies simply the colon. 4I2

Enterophytum

(From and a plant). The sea chitterling, which grows in the shape of a plant.

Enteroraphe

(From and a suture). A suture of the intestines. It is performed with the glover's stitch, and the end of the thread must be left beyond the external wound, to connect both, in order to form an adhesion, or an artificial anus.

Enteroscheocele

(From the scrotum, and a hernia). See Hernia scrotalis.

Enthemata

(From to put in). Medicines applied immediately to recent wounds, in order to prevent an inflammation, or stop a haemorrhage.

Enthetos

(From to put in). Any thing introduced, but particularly lint introduced into the nose to stop a haemorrhage.

Enthlasis

(From to press upon,) illisio; a contusion, with the impression of the instrument by which it happened.

Enthusiasmus

(From to rave). An heated imagination, when a person deeply contemplating religious subjects loses his reason, and sees strange sights, or hears the noise of musical instruments.

Entrichoma

(From and the hair).

The edge of the eye lid on which the hairs grow.

Entrimma

(From and to grate, or triturate). See Intritum.

Entrochus

(From and a wheel). An oblong stone nearly as thick as the finger, from one to two inches long; bluish, composed of joints frequently found in clay pits. Sometimes the joints are found separate, and are called trochitae. It is a part of the arm of a petrified star fish, or a similar sea animal. It is always hardened with sparry matter, and, like it, is supposed to be diuretic. A trochite, when found separate, is nearly an inch in diameter, with a hole in the centre; varying in thickness; when broken, it is glossy and shining.