Lexicon-medicum, or, Medical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, botany, chemistry, materia medica, midwifery, mineralogy, pharmacy, physiology, practice of physic, surgery, and the various branches of natural philosophy connected with medicine : selected, arranged, and compiled, from the best authors / by Robert Hooper.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Lexicon-medicum, or, Medical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, botany, chemistry, materia medica, midwifery, mineralogy, pharmacy, physiology, practice of physic, surgery, and the various branches of natural philosophy connected with medicine : selected, arranged, and compiled, from the best authors / by Robert Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A NEW MEDICAL DICTIONARY. ABA ...Vr I. Iii composition this letter, the a in Greek, and a in Latin, signifies without: thus aphonia, without voice, acaulis, without stem, aphyllus, without a leaf, &c. 2. A. A a. (From ava, which signifies of each.) Abbreviations of ana, which word is used in pre- scriptions after the mention of two or more in- gredients, when it implies, that the quantity men- tioned of each ingredient should be taken ; thus, ]y. PotasscE nitratis—Sacchari albi aa 3j- Take nitrate of potassa and white sugar, of each one drachm. A'abam. An obsolete term used by some an- cient alchemists for lead. AA'RON. A physician of Alexandria, author of thirty books in the Syriac tongue, containing the whole practice of physic, chiefly collected from the Greek writings, and supposed to have been written before A. D. 620. He first mention- ed, and described the small-pox and measles, which were probably brought thither by the Ara- bians. He directed the vein under the tongue to be opened in jaundice, and noticed the white colour of the faices in that disease. His works are lost, except some fragments, preserved by Rhazes. , AA'VORA. The fruit of a species of palra- f tree, which grows in the West Indies and Africa. It is of the size of a hen's egg, and included with several more in a large shell. In the middle of the fruit there is a hard nut, about the size of a peach-stone, which contains a white almond, very astringent, and useful against a diarrhoea. Aba'ctus. Abigeatus. Among the ancient physicians, this term was used for a miscarriage, procured by art, or force of medicines, in contra- distinction to abortus, which meant a natural miscarriage. A'bacus. (From an Hebrew word, signifying dust.) A table for preparations, so called from the usage of mathematicians of drawing their figures upon tables sprinkled with dust. ABAl'SIR. Abas%s. Ivory black; and also calcareous powder. ABALIENATIO. Abalienation ; or a decay if the body, or mind. ■MUUKNATi S. Corrupted ABD 2. A part so destroyed as to require immediate extirpation. 3. The total destruction of the senses, whether external or internal, by disease. A'banet. (Hebrew. The girdle worn by the Jewish priests.) A girdle-like bandage. Abapti'sta. (From a, priv. ana fiairrio, to plunge.) Abaptiston. 1. The shoulders of the old trepan. 2. This term is employed by Galen, Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Scultetus, and others, to denote the conical saw with a circular edge, (otherwise called modiolus, or terebra,) which was formerly used by surgeons to perforate the cranium. Abapti'ston. See Abaptista. Abarnahas. A chemical term formerly used in the transmutation of metals, signifying luna plena, magnes, or magnesia. Aba'rtamen. Lead. AB ARTICULATION. (From aft, and art*. cuius, a joint.) A species of articulation which has evident motion. See Diarthrosis. A'bas. An Arabian term for the scald-head, and also for epilepsy. Aba'sis. See Abaisir. ABBREVIATION. The principal uses of medicinal abbreviations are in prescriptions, in which they are certain marks, or half words, used by physicians for despatch and conveniency when they prescribe ; thus:—ft readily supplies the place of recipe—/;. s. that of hora somni—n. m. that of nux moschata—elect, that of clectarium, &c. ; and in general all the names of compound medicines, with the several ingredients, are fre- quently wrote only up to their first or second syl- lable, or sometimes to their third or fourth, to make them clear and expressive. Thus Croc. Anglic, stands for Crocus Anglicanus—ConJ. Aromat. for Confectio Aromatica, &c. A'point being always placed at the end of such syllable, shows the word to be incomplete. ABBREVIATUS. Abbreviate; shortened. A term often used in botany. ABDOMEN. {Abdomen, inis. n. ; from ahdo, to hide : because it hides the viscera. It is also derived from abdere, to hide, aud omentum, nl : ]>v other-! omen i.- said to l>e ou'y i