The nurse's dictionary / originally comp. by Honnor Morten ; with phonetic pronunciations by Mary I. Burdett.

  • Morten, Honnor, 1861-1913.
Date:
1925
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Credit: The nurse's dictionary / originally comp. by Honnor Morten ; with phonetic pronunciations by Mary I. Burdett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. Skull, side view. i Superior maxilla, j Inferior maxilla, k The zy¬ goma. a Frontal, b Parietal, c Nasal, d Sphenoid, e Temporal, f Occipital, b Malar. Soleus (so'-le-us). A muscle in the calf of the leg. Somnam'bulistn (som-nam'- bu-lizm). Walking in the sleep. Som'noform. Anaesthetic; for¬ merly used for dentaland other operations of short duration. Sb'por. An unnaturally pro¬ found sleep. Coma. Soporific (so-po-rif'-ik). An agent which induces sleep. Sor'des. Brown crusts about the lips and teeth of a feverish patient. They should be care¬ fully washed away with soft linen dipped in a weak solution of Condy, or glycerine and borax. The linen should be burnt. Souffle (soofl). A soft blowing sound. During late pregnancy the funic souffle can sometimes be 'heard by auscultation of the maternal abdomen, a sound synchronous with the foetal heart and supposed to be produced in the umbilical cord. The uterine souffle is more frequent than the above; it is a loud blowing murmur heard as a rule along the left side of the uterus, and often all over it. It may be found in a uterus enlarged by some cause not related to pregnancy, as fibroids, but it is said that the uterine souffle of pregnancy is especially characterised by its variability from time to time, whereas other uterine souffles, when they occur, are constant. Sound (sownd). A probe-like instrument used for exploring. Soxhlet Apparatus. An ar¬ rangement for sterilising or pasteurising an infant’s food: several feeds can be got ready and dealt with at the same time. Spasm (spazm). (i) Sudden convulsive involuntary move¬ ment. (2) Sudden contrac¬ tion of a muscle or muscles, especially of the unstriped muscle coats of arteries, in¬ testines, heart, bronchi, &c. The effect of such spasm de¬ pends on the part affected: thus asthma is believed to be