The physical dictionary. Wherein the terms of anatomy, the names and causes of diseases, chyrurgical instruments and their use; are accurately describ'd / [Steven Blankaart].

  • Blankaart, Steven, 1650-1702.
Date:
1697
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Credit: The physical dictionary. Wherein the terms of anatomy, the names and causes of diseases, chyrurgical instruments and their use; are accurately describ'd / [Steven Blankaart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cdwznz dent es, the fame with Cynodontes. Canities, a hoarinefs of the Head before the ufual time: It is Two-fold,the one is according to the ordinary courfe of Na¬ ture j the other ill, and as A- riftotle calls it, Difeafed. Canna major, the fame with tibia. Canna minor, the fame that Fibula os. Canon, a Surgeons Inftru- ment, which they make ufe of when they fovv up Wounds. Canthus, or hircus, the Angle or Corner of the Eye *, which is either the greater or the In¬ ternal j or the Lefs or Exter¬ nal. Cantum or Canium Saccha- rum, Sugar-Candy. Capillaria vafa, the fmail Ca¬ pillary Velfels. Capillorum defluvium, fee A- lopecia. Capillus, the Hair of the Head. Capijirum, a Swathe for the Head, ufed by Chyrurgeons. Capitilavium , a Liquor wherein the Head is wafhed. Capreolus auris, fee Helix. Capful £ artrabilarU, or Re¬ ties fuccenturiati, Glandulous Bodies placed above the Reins: Their ufe is to receive the Wa¬ tery Subfiance called Lympha, into their Cavities, wherewith the Blood in its return from the Reins being thicker, and much deflitute of Serum, may be di¬ luted, and circulate more fluid.- Jy. Capful, cordis, fee Pericar- dium. Capful a com munis,which Gliffon has obferved in the Liver, is no¬ thing but a Membrane which proceeds from the Peritoneum, which includes both the Porus bilarius, and the Vena porta, or Great Vein in the Liver. CapfuU feminales, the Ex- tream Cavities of the Velfels which convey the Seed, dilated like little Coffers, which by Two fmail Holes emit the Seed received from the Tefticles into the little Seminary Bladders, that it may be either preferved there againfi: the time of Coi¬ tion, or be reduced into the Blood by the Lymphatick Vef- fels. Caput mortuum, that thick dry Matter which remains after theDiftillation of Minerals, ef- : pecially : But moll; commonly ; it denotes that which remains of j Vitriol. Caput purgium, the fame with Errhinum. Car anna, a hard Rofin aJmoft like Taccamahaca, but Tweeter, brighter and more Liquid. Carbo, fee Anthax. Carbunculus, the fame with Anthrax. Carcinodes, a Tumor like a*1 Cancer. Carcinoma, Carcinus or Can¬ cer, a Tumor that arifes from a Saline-Sulphureous and fliarp Blood : It is round, hard, livid, painful, at the beginning as big as a Pea, but afterwards ’tis furrounded with great fwelling Veins,