Meloe Vesicatorius

See Cantharides.

Melon

(From an apple). An apple; the cheek, (see Mala and Buccae,) or a disorder, of the eye, when it protuberates from the socket. See Ex-ophthalmia and Malum.

Melongena

Mala insana, solanum pomiferum. Mad apple. It is not injurious, as has been supposed. The Spaniards and Italians eat them both in sauce and in sweetmeats: their taste resembles that of a citron.

Melopepon

(From an apple, and a pompion). The squash resembles both the melon and the pompion, except that its fruit is roundish, striated, angular, cut into five parts, and full of flat seeds, fixed to a spongy placenta. See Pepo.

Melosis

(From a probe). The searching of any part with a probe. See Apyromele.

Melostica Pendula

Lin. Sp. Pl 49, is not remarkable for any medical virtues, but its fruit is pickled and eaten as a condiment.

Melothrum

See Bryonia alba.

Melotris

(A diminutive of a probe). See

Apyromele.

Membranacei

(From membrana). Inflammation of membranous parts.

Membranaceus

(From membrana,) belonging to the membranes. In botany it means those leaves which have no parenchyma between the surfaces.

Membranaceus pinguis. See Caeliflos.

Membranae

See I.wolucra.

Membranologia

(From membrana, and discourse). Mf.mbranology. It treats of the common integuments, and of particular membranes.

Membranosus Musculus

From its large membranous expansion. See Aponeurosis.

Mendosa Sutura

(From mendax, counterfeit). The squamous suture in the skull; differing from other sutures, as it resembles a scale instead of being indented into the adjoining bone.

Mendosae Costae

(From the same). See Costae.

Meninges

(From to remain). See Dura mater.

Mening

AE AE Arteri^e, (from a membrane). See Dunae matris arteriae.

Meningophylax

(From a membrane, and to guard). An instrument described by

Celsus, lib. viii. cap. 3, contrived for guarding the membranes of the brain, whilst the bone is rasped, or cut, after the operation of the trepan.

Meninx

(From to remain). See Dura mater.

Mensa

The second lobe of the liver in ancient authors. See Auriga.

Mensa Jovis. See Verbena.

Mensis Philosophicus

A philosophical or chemical month is sometimes confined to three days and nights, at others to ten, thirty, and even forty-days.

Menstrua

(From or the Hebrew term meni, a month). The menses in women, and the bleeding piles in men. The plural also of Menstruum, q. v.