The medical vocabulary, containing a concise explanation of the terms used in medicine and its accessory sciences : to which is appended a selection of Indian medical words in common use / by Robert Fowler.

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1875
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    <TKoireo>, skopeo, I scrutinize). The examination of the body after death. Necrosed (veicpos, nekros, death). Dead ; deprived of life. Necrosemeio'tics (veicpos, nekros, dead; <njp.eiov, semeion, sign). The doctrine of the signs of death. Necro'sis (veicpos, nekros, dead). 1. That condition in which part of the shaft of a cylindrical bone dies, and is enclosed in a case of new bone. 2. Dry gangrene. 3. Bot. A disease of plants chiefly found upon their leaves and soft parenchymatous parts. It consists of small black spots, beneath which the substance of the plant de- cays. Necro'tie (same). Syn. of Necrosed. Necro'tomy (ve<pos, nekros, dead; Tep.voi, temno, I cut in two). Syn. of Dissection. Necta'reous (veVrap, nektar, bever- age of the gods). Having an agree- able taste. Nectariferous (veicrap, nektar, beverage of the gods ; </>ep&>, phero, I bear). Bot. Bearing, or producing, honey or nectaries. Ne'ctarilyme (veicrap, nektar, bever- age of the gods ; eiAuw, eiluo, I en- fold). Bot. The organ which covers and protects the nectar.—Sprengel. Nectary (veicrap, nektar, beverage of the gods). Bot. The glandular bodies which in a flower secrete honey. Necu'sia (veicvs, nekus, dead body). A dissection wound; the aggregate of symptoms produced by the admis- sion into the blood through a wound, of the septic poisons. Needle-bearer. Needle-carrier. An instrument for accurately laying hold of a surgical needle, and giving it greater length. Ne'gative. Chem. Phil. Applied to that state of a body in which, when its electrical equilibrium is disturbed, it retains, less than its natural quantity of Electricity and is undercharged. Ne'gative-pole. Nat. Phil. The copper extremity of a galvanic battery. Negroid. Ne'groloid (Negro; and elSog, eidos, appearance). Per- taining to men who have a resem- blance to negroes. 329 Ne'maline (vrjp.a, nema, thread). Miner. Having the form of threads ; fibrous. Nematoid (vijp,a, nema, thread). elSog, eidos, appearance). Zool. Long, slender, and cylindrical like threads. Thread-like. N ematon'eura (v7ip.a, nema, thread; vevpov, neuron, nerve). Animals in which the nervous system is filamen- tary. Nemean. Nemeous (t'ijp.a, nema, thread). Bot. Lengthened like a thread. Nemobla'stous (vrjp.a, nema, thread; /3A.acrr6s, blastos, sprout). Bot. Applied to filiform embryos.— Willdenow. Ne'moral. Ne'morose. Ne'mo- rous (L. nemus, wood). Pertain- ing to a wood, or grove. Neo'gala (veos, neos, new; ydka, gala, milk). Milk secreted directly after the colostrum. Syn. of Colos- trum. Ne'ogene (ve'os, neos, new; yewdio, gennao, i beget). Geol. New-born; applied to the Pliocene and Miocene Tertiaries grouped together by some Continental Geologists. Neo-membrane (ve'os, neos, new). A fibrinous exudation which has be- come supplied with vessels and nerves. Neoplasm (ve'os, neos, new; Trkdcrcrcj, plasso, I form). 1. A new formation or growth; a tumour. 2. The doc- trine that every pathological struc- ture has its physiological prototype. Neopla'sty (ve'os, neos, new; irkda-- <rw, plasso, I form). An operation for the formation of new parts.—Burdach. Neoteric (vednepos, neoteros, younger). Natural to youth; youth- ful ; recent; modern. Neozoic (ve'os, neos, new; £<o?j, zde, life). Geol. Applied to the fossiliferous strata from the com- mencement of the Trias up to the existing order of things.—E. Forbes. Ne'phalism (v#a>, nephd, I am sober). Total abstinence; teetotalism. —Prof. Miller. Nepbelo'dometer (ve<j>ekri, ne- phele, cloud; o$6s, odos, path; p.e- rpew, metreo, I measure). Nat. Phil.