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 D. Meredith Reese.

  • Reese, David Meredith, 1800-1861.
Date:
1855
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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 D. 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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    Anodyne; a drag giving ease in pain, by benumb- ing the sensibility and inclining to sleep. Anomalous ; unnatural, irregular. Anomphalos ; wanting a navel. Anonymous Column.e ; certain eminences in the brain; applied to the os iunominatum and its foramen. Anorchides ; male children, born without testes in the scrotum, these organs remaining in the ab- domen. Anorexia ; want of appetite. Anorexia Mirabilts ; long fasting. Anormal ; without rule, unusual. Anosia ; health, freedom from disease. Anosmia ; diminution or loss of the sense of smell. Antacids ; remedies which relieve sour stomach. Antagonist ; applied to counteracting muscles. Antagonism ; action in an opposite direction. Antaphrodisiac ; medicines which blunt the vene- real appetite. Antebrachial ; relating to the forearm. Antelable ; extremity of the lips. Antemetica ; remedies for vomiting. Anterior; before, applied to various muscles, <fcc. Anteversio Uteri ; body of the uterus inclining forward. Anthelmia ; spigelia, or Indian pink-root. Anthelmintic ; antidote for worms. Anthemis ; chamomile, various species. Anthemis Pyretrum; Spanish pellitory, a stimu- lant. Anthracite; fossil coal.