A dictionary of dental science, biography, bibliography, and medical terminology / by Chapin A. Harris.

  • Chapin A. Harris
Date:
1849
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CHALYB'EATE. Chalybea'tus; from chalybs, iron or steel. Of, or belong- ing to, iron. Any medicine into which iron enters, as a chalybeate mixture, pills, waters, &c. Chalybeate Waters. Any min- eral water containing iron. Chalybis Rubigo. Sub-carbonate of iron. CHALYBS. From Chalybes, a peo- ple of Pontus, who dug iron out of the earth, ^cies, steel, or the proto-carbu- ret of iron. In its medicinal virtues, steel does not differ from iron. Chalybs Tartarizatus. Ferrum tar- tarizatum. CHAM^AC'TE. See Sambucus ebulus. CHAMyE'CEDRIS. Artemisia san- tonica; wormseed. CHAM^'LEON. From xa^^M, on the ground, and xsuv, a lion, i. e. dwarf lion. The chamseleon, an animal able to change his color at pleasure. It is also applied to many thistles, from the variety and uncertainty of their colors. CHAM^MELUM NOBILE. See Anthemis Nobilis. CHAMiE'MORUS. Xa^uaijuopta; from xo-H-'^''^ on the ground, and |itopfa, the mulberry tree. See Rubus Chamse- raorus. CHAM^'PITYS. See Teucrium Chamsepitys. CHAMiEPiTYs Moschata. The French ground pine. Teucrium iva. CHAM^'PLION. See Erysimum Alliaria. CHAMBAR. Magnesia, CHAMBER. Camera ; a term em- ployed in Jlnatomy, in speaking of the eye, in which there are two chambers; an anterior and a posterior. The space before the iris is termed the anterior- chamber, and that behind it the poste- rior. CHAMOMILE. Anthemis nobilis. CHAMOMIL'LA NOSTRAS. Mat- ricaria chamomiUa. CHAN'CRE. From xapxtvof, can- cer. A sore resulting from the di- rect application of the venereal poison to any part of the body. This term is never applied to sores occurring in other parts of the body from absorption or general contamination of the system. The French apply the word chancre, to cancerous ulcers, and malignant aphthae of children. CHAOMANTPA. A term used by the ancients to signify the art of predicting the future from observations of the air. CHARACTER. Xapaxf .^p, a mark or impression. In General Medicine, the. term is used synonymously with mark or appearance. Thus, a disease is of unfavorable character, or has a bilious character, &c. In Dental Surgery, it is applied to the appearances which the teeth present in their physiological and pathological conditions. It has, also, the same signification when applied to the gums. CHARANTIA. Momordica elate- rium. CHAR'COAL. Carbo. An impure form of carbon, obtained by burning wood with imperfect access of air, or exposing it to a strong heat in a distilling apparatus composed ofcylindersof iron, so constructed that the volatile product may be collected. Among this there will be a certain proportion of tar and pyrohg- neous acid, or impure vinegar. This, when it is wished to procure a pure ar- ticle, should be suffered to escape, while the reabsorption of the crude vapor should be prevented, by cutting off the communication between the interior of the cylinders, and the apparatus used for condensing the pyroligneous acid, after the removal of the fire from the fur- nace. The charcoal obtained for common purposes, as fuel, &c. is made from wood, piled up in the shape of a pyra- mid, covered with earth, with a few air holes, but which as the pile becomes well lighted, are closed. In this way the wood is deprived of its volatile parts and converted into a black, brittle, por- ous substance, called charcoal, but re-
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