A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by Richard D. Hoblyn.

  • Hoblyn, Richard D. (Richard Dennis), 1803-1886.
Date:
1859
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    CANNON METAL. An alloy of copper, tin, and small quantities of other metals; used for casting cannon. [CANTHARIDAL COLLODION. A blistering liquid made by exhausting, by percolation, a pound of cantharides, with a mixture consisting of a pound of sulphu- ric ether and three ounces of acetic ether. Twenty-five grains of gun-cotton is to be dissolved in two ounces of this liquid; and to prevent the contraction which takes place on its drying, about one per cent, of Venice turpentine may be added.] [CANTH ARIS (KavOapog, a beetle). The pharmacopoeial name of the blistering or Spanish fly. The insect most commonly used is the Cantharis vesicatoria; but there are several indigenous species which are equally efficient, and may be employed as substitutes. Of these the Cantharis vittata is the only one adopted as officinal; but the C. cinerea, C. marginata, C. atrata, have equal vesicating powers. There are about twelve other indigenous species which have not been practically employed, but which may prove not inferior in vesi- cating powers to the preceding species.] Cantharis Vesicatoria. The Blister Bee- tle, or Spanish Fly, a coleopterous insect, found on species of Oleacece and Caprifo- UacecB, but rare in England. Cantharidin. A crystalline substance procured from the above insect, and exist- ing probably in all blistering beetles; 1000 parts of cantharides yield four parts of pure cantharidin. [CANTHOPLASTY (icavtibs, the angle of the eye; xXao-o-w, to form). The forma- tion of the angle of the eye by plastic ope- ration.] CANTHUS (KarOos). The angle of the eye, where the eyelids meet; the inner can- thus is that nearest to the nose; the other is called the outer or lesser canthus. [CANTIANUS PULVIS. Lady Kent's Powder; a cordial powder, formerly in re- pute for cancer, composed of crab's claws, prepared pearls, red coral, and oriental bezoar.] CANTON'S PHOSPHORUS. A sub- stance made by exposing calcined oyster- shells and sulphur to a red heat. On ex- posure to light, it acquires the property of shining in the dark. CAN'ULA (dim. of canna, a reed). A small tube, generally applied to that of the trochar, Ac. CAOUTCHOUC. Elastic gum, or Indian rubber; the concrete juice of the Hcevea Caoutchouc, Iatropa Elastica, Ficua Indica, and Artocarpus Integrifolia. Caoutchine. A volatile oil produced by distillation of caoutchouc at a high tem- perature. CAPELINA (capeline, Fr., a woman's hat). A double-headed roller put around the head, &c. CAPERS. The pickled buds of the Cap>paris spinosa, a low shrub, growiDg out of the joints of old walls, and the fis- sures of rocks, in most of the warm parts of Europe. CAPHOPICRITE (Ka<l>iw, to exhale; ■micpbs, bitter). The bitter principle of rhubarb, also called rhabarberin. But what this principle consists in, appears to be wholly undetermined. Quot homines, tot sententiae. CAPILLAIRE. A syrup made of sugar, honey, and orange-flower water. [More properly made of the Adiantum capillus veneris.] CAPILLARY (capilhis, a hair). Re- sembling a hair in size; a term applied to— 1. The Vessels which intervene between the minute arteries and veins. 2. A Fissure; capillatio; a very minute crack in the skull. 3. Tubes, which are so small as to be less than the twentieth of an inch in diai meter in the inside. 4. The Attraction by which a liquid rises in a capillary tube higher than the surface of that which surrounds it. CAPILLUS (quasi capitis pilus). The hair in general. It is thus distinguished: 1. Coma (k6/jlti). A head of hair either dressed or not; and, by analogy, the branches and leaves of trees. 2. Crinia (Kplvu>, to put in order). The hair when set in order, or platted. 3. Cassaries (cado, to cut). A man's head of hair; woman's hair being formerly never cut. 4. Cincinnos (kikiwos). A bush of hair crisped, curled, or braided; a curled or frizzled lock. 5. Cirrhus. Quasi in circum tortus. A curl or frizzle. From icipas, a horn ; because the cirrhus resembled a horn in shape. 6. Cilium [cileo, to twinkle). The eye- lashes. I. Super-cilium. The eye-brow; the hair situated over the cilium. 8. Vibrissa (vibro, to quiver). The hair in the nostrils; so named from their strain- ing the air, as it were, in its passage, and preventing the introduction of foreign bodies in the nasal fossae. 9. Mystax {uvoraZ, mustaches). The hair on the upper lip. 10. Barba (ipopPr), nourishment). The beard, both of man and of beasts. II. Pilus (nlXos, carded wool). The hair of the head, beard, <fcc, of any creature