Mala

(From a resemblance to malum, apple). The prominent part of the cheek. (Martinius.) See Buccae.

Mala Assyria. See Citreum.

Mala aurantia. See Aurantia Hispalensis.

Mala aurea. See Amoris ioma, and Aurantia

HlSpaliensia.

Mala cotonea majora, et minora. See Cydo-nia.

Mala insania nigra. See Melongena.

Mala punica. See Granata mala.

Malabarica Herba

See Coru Canarica.

Malabarica pruna. The fruit of the eugenia janbos Lin. Sp. Pl. 672. The fruit is subacid and salutary, and a mildly astringent conserve is prepared from the flowers.

Malabathri Oleum

See Cinnamomum

Malabathrinum

(From malabathrum). Ointment of malabathrum, compounded of myrrh, spikenard, malabathrum, and many other aromatic ingredients. See Dionysos.

Malabathrum

(From Malabar, and betre, a leaf). Into this word the Greeks corrupted the Indian appellation tamalapatrum. Sec Folium.

Malaca Radix

Sec Sagittaria alexi-pharmica.

Malacia

(From a ravenous fish). See

Pica.

Malacoides

(From a mallow, and a form or likeness,) malva betonicae folio, malope malacoides Lin. Sp. Pl. 974, a plant similar in appearance and qualities to the mallow.

Malacosteon

(From soft, and a bone ). Sec Morbi solidi simtlicis and Rachitis.

Malacticos

(From to soften ). See

Emollientia.

Malagma

(From to soften,) baeos; synonymous with cataplasma, from its effects; but formerly malagmas were made of many other ingredients.

Malagma arabum. A cataplasm for strumous swellings and tubercles.

Malagfuetta

Or Malagueta. See Paradisi Ghana.

Malarum Ossa

The cheek bones, zygomatica and jugalia ossa, are the irregular square bones, placed on the outside of the orbits. Their corners are reckoned processes; the longest, viz. the posterior and superior, are called the superior orbitar processes; the anterior and superior, which end in acute angles, arc the inferior orbitar processes: the anterior and inferior, which are the shortest, are denominated the maxillary; the posterior and inferior, zygomatic.

Malats

Neutral salts, composed of alkalis, or earths, and the malic acid. They are little known, and have not been hitherto used in medicine. See Malic acid.

Malaviscus

(From malva, the mallow, and vis-cvs, glue, from its viscidity). See Althaea.

Malaxatio

(From to soften). The softening of any thing.

Malazissatus

Emasculatus and mulieratus; an appellation of those whose testes have not descended into the scrotum.