This section is from the book "The London Medical Dictionary", by Bartholomew Parr. Also available from Amazon: London Medical Dictionary.
(From
to mutter or groan). A sighing or groaning during respiration, while the air is forced out of the lungs. Hippocrates.
(From
a nostril, and
resemblance). An epithet of an ulcer, which is full of mucus.
(From
to blow the nose). See
Nasus.
See Nares.
(From
to abound with moisture).
A disease of any part from redundant moisture, applied by Galen to the eyelids.
(From
to grow putrid). Fungous flesh in a fistulous ulcer.
(From
diseases supposed to arise from too great influx of humours). Different complaints have been attributed to this cause, the distinguishing symptom of which is a dilatation of the pupil. These are amaurosis, hydrocephalus, worms, the adhesion of the uvea to the capsule of the crystalline, paralysis and spasm. See Amaurosis.
(From its resemblance to
a grindstone). Sec Patella.
See Staphyloma.
(From
a fly, and
the head). A tumour in the uvea of the eye, resembling the head of a fly. See Staphyloma.
(From
musculus, and
venter). An inflammation of the muscles of the belly. (Vogel). See Iflammatio musc abdominis.
(From
a muscle, and
sermo). A treatise on the muscles.
Short sighted person.
The uvea growing over the sight.
(From the same). A contraction of the pupil, not enlarging in darkness. This sometimes arises from spasm, occasionally from paralysis, and in the internal ophthalmia, or from wounds, from inflammation, when it is, perhaps, ultimately referrible to spasm. It is sometimes like the myopia acquired, sometimes hereditary.
(From
a muscle). Rheumatism, particularly when it affects the muscles of the limbs proceeding from the joints. (Sagar.) See Rheuma-tismus.
M Yosuros,
a mouse and
a tail; from its resemblance,) cauda muris, holosteum, holostes, ranunculus, myosurus, minimus Lin. Sp. Pl. 407. Mouse tail. The leaves are gramineous; it flowers in May, and grows in the highway, resembling in virtue the plantain.
 
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