Medical lexicon of modern terminology : being a complete vocabulary of definitions including all the technical terms employed by writers and teachers of medical science at the present day, and comprising several hundreds of words not found in any other dictionary : designed for the use of students and practitioners / by David Meredith Reese.

  • Reese, David Meredith, 1800-1861.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Medical lexicon of modern terminology : being a complete vocabulary of definitions including all the technical terms employed by writers and teachers of medical science at the present day, and comprising several hundreds of words not found in any other dictionary : designed for the use of students and practitioners / by David Meredith Reese. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    CORRUGATOR; applied to certain muscles which knit and depress the brows. CORRUPTION; pus, putridity. CORTEX; any bark, but ordinarily applied by way of eminence to the Peruvian bark. CORTICAL; exterior or cineritious portion of the brain, external portion of the kidney. CORYZA; catarrh with sneezing, ozoema. COSMETIC ; a wash or unguent to beautify the skin. COSTA; a rib, seven true and five false on each side, the former called sterno-vertebral, and the latter vertebral, from their attachments. COSTALIS PLEURA ; that portion of the pleu- ra which lines the ribs. COSTIVENESS ; constipation of the bowels. COTYLOID; cavity, as the acetabulum. COTYLOID LIGAMENT; surrounding border of the acetabulum. COUCHING; operation for cataract, by depress- ing the lens. COUNTER-IRRITATION; as by applying a blister, seton, issue, moxa, or any vesicatory or rubefacient agencv to the skin. COUNTER-EXTENSION ; applying force to the opposite extremities of a fractured bone, or supporting the body while extension is used in reducing dislocations, as of the hip or shoulder. COUNTER-OPENING; on the opposite side, as for extracting a ball from a gun-shot wound, &c. COUP DE SOLEIL; stroke of the sun, insola- tion, a sudden and often dangerous disease of the brain. i