Quincy's Lexicon physico-medicum improved, or, A dictionary of the terms employed in medicine, and in such departments of chemistry, natural philosophy, literature, and the arts, as are connected therewith : containing ample explanations of the etymology, signification, and use of those terms : from the 11th London edition : with many amendments and additions, expressive of discoveries lately made in Europe and America : copy-right secured.

  • Quincy, John, -1722.
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1802
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    Xuu, to diffuse, scatter, or be /infuse, decent in point of dress. Hippo- crates thinks the dress of a fop dero- gatory from the physician; though thereby he hides his ignorance, and obtains the good opinion of his pa- tients. Adiantum, maiden-hair, a genus in Linnseus's botany, in the order of Filices, ferns. Twenty-seven spe- cies are enumerated in the Systema Vegetabilium. Adiantum Nigrum, black maiden- hair, a species of Asplenium. Adiaphorous, a term which implies the same with neutral; and is parti- cularly used of some spirits and salts, which are neither of an acid nor al- kaline nature. Adiajineustia, from the privative particle a and Sicmviw, perspiro; is a diminution or obstruction of natural perspiration, and that in which the ancients chiefly placed the cause of fevers. Adiarrhcea, from a priv. and &- appeal, to floiv out, or through, a total suppression of all the necessary eva- cuations. Adiposa? Aterice. They are branches from the phrenic arteries, which are spread on the fat that covers the kid- neys. Adijiosa Membrana. The cellular membrane is so called, where it con- tains a white granulated matter, ca- pable only of being fused by heat. Dr. Hunter says, it is a composition of ductile membranes, connected by a sort of net work. He farther ob- serves, that it is composed of two kinds of cells; viz. the reticular, which communicate with each other, and the adipose, which do not com- municate. But those that are reticu- lar are more properly the cellular membrane. Adiposa Vena, or Vena renalis. It is a vein arising from the descending trunk of the cava, which spreads it- self on the coat and fat that covers the kidneys. Adi/iosi Duclus, called also Sacculi, and V~esicula adipose, are passages which convey the fat into the inter- stices of the muscles, or to the parta between the flesh and the skin; or, they are the bags or duds containing the fat. Adipsia, from a neg. and h^cif thirst, want of thirst. Adipsos. So the Greeks called the Egyptian palm-tree, whose fruit, before it is ripe, is said to be the Myrobalans. The tree is called adip- sos because its fruit quencheth thirst. Theophrastus calls this tree BalanoSi Adipsos is also a name for liquorice. Adjutorium, from ad, and juvo, to help, a name of the Humerus, from its usefulness in lifting up the fore- arm. Adnata. It is also called Albugz- tiea; and is generally confounded with the Conjundliva, which see. The adnata is thus formed; five of the muscles which move the eyes, take their origin from the bottom of the orbit, and the sixth arises from the edge of it; they are all inserted by a tendinous expansion into the anterior part of the Tunica sclerotica; whicll expansion gives the whiteness pecu- liar to the fore part of the eye. It lies betwixt the sclerotica and con* junftiva. Adnata. Such parts of animal or vegetable bodies as are inseparable, as the hair, wool, fruits, horns; or else accidental, as fungus, misletoe, and excrescences. Adnata. Those offsets which, by a new germination under the earth, proceed from the lily, hyacinth, &c. Adolescens, expresses that part of life between the end of childhood and a man's full strength, and is reckoned the most healthful. Adopter, in Chemistry, a large round receiver with two necks diametric cally opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of the retort, and the other is joined to another re- ceiver, in order, in certain distilla- tions, to give more space to the elas- tic vapours. Adpondus omnium, the weight of the whole, signifies that the last pre-