Ephialtia

(From ephialtes; because it occasions the night mare). See Paeonia.

Ephippium

A saddle. See Sella turcica. It is called ephippium, from its resemblance to a saddle.

Ephodes

(From and a way). In Hippocrates it means the ducts or passages by which the excrementitious fluids of the body are evacuated; the periodical attack of a fever, from the common use of the term to express the attack of thieves; or the access of similar or dissimilar things which may be useful or hurtful to the body.

Epialos

An epithet of a fever, (from gentle, and the sea). Galen defines it to be a fever in which the patient labours under a preternatural heat, and a coldness at the same time; called by the Latins quercera. Hesychius confines it to the cold shivering preceding a fever; and other authors enumerate it among the varieties of tertian fever.

Epibole

(From and to be cast upon).

See Incubo.

Epicanthides

(From and the angle of the eye). See Canthi.

Epicarpium

(From and the wrist).

See Cataplasma.

Epicauma

(From and to burn). See

Encauma.

Epicerastica

(From and to mix, or attemperate). Medicines supposed to dilute obtund acrimony, and relieve troublesome sensations.

Epicholos

(From and bile). Bilious.

Epichordis

(From and a gut). See

Mesenterium.

Epichorios

(From and a region). See

Epidemius.

Epicoelis

(From and the eye lid). The upper eye lid.

Epicolicae Regiones

(From super, and colon). The lateral or lumbar region; the parts of the body adjacent to the colon.