Epistaphylini

(From and a parsnip,) from their resemblance to a parsnip. See Staphylini.

Epistasis

(From and to stay,)cpischesis.

A suppression of proper excretions; or rather the superficies of urine, called insidentia, opposed to the upostasis, subsidentia, or sediment in urine. Epistasis is applied in Hippocrates to the beginning and increase of the fit.

Epistaxis

(From instillo). Haemorrhage from the nose. See Haemorrhagia.

Epistomion

(From and a mouth).

A stopper for a bottle, and a vent-hole of a register furnace.

Epistrophaeus

(From and to turn).

Epistrophea and epistrophis. The first vertebra of the neck: the same term is applied, though improperly, to the second.

Epitedeuma

(From to appropriate).

The way of living each person adopts. Coelius Aure-lianus calls it vitae affectiones; and Celsus, vita pro-posit a.

Epithelium

(From and to cover).

See Cuticula, and Prolarium.

Epithema

(From upon, and to lay upon or apply). A lid or cover; but used to signify a topical medicine. Epithems are, 1. Liquid; and, when applied warm, called fomentations or embrocations; 2. Dry or solid; viz. medicated powders folded in cloths, called sacculus, and saccus; when applied to the head, cucupha, and cucullus; to the forehead, fron-tale; to the breast or stomach, scutum and pulvinar; when used as a pillow, lectulus; 3. Those of the soft kind, as sinapisms, and poultices. Turner confines the name of epithem to liquids in which rags are dipped, to be applied to the parts affected. See Gaubius de For-mulus Medicamentorum.

Epithesis

(From and to lay upon). In surgery, it is the straightening of crooked limbs by means of instruments.

Epithymbrum

(From and savory).

A species of moss growing on the thymbra, or winter savory.

Epithymum

(From and thyme). See Cuscuta.