The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English Part 165

ANTIDOTE. A remedy to counteract the effect of poison.

ANTIFEBRILE. A remedy which abates fever.

ANTIPERIODIC. A remedy which prevents the regular appearance of similar symptoms in the course of a disease.

ANTISEPTIC. Medicines which prevent putrefaction.

ANTISPASMODICS. Medicines which relieve spasm.

a.n.u.s. The circular opening at the end of the bowel, through which the excrement leaves the body.

AORTA. The great artery of the body arising from the heart. Illus. page 58.

APERIENT. A medicine which moves the bowels gently.

APHTHae. Sore mouth, beginning in pimples and ending in white ulcers.

APHTHOUS. Complicated with aphthae.

APNOEA. Short, hurried breathing.

APOPLEXY. The effects of a sudden rush of blood to an organ; as the brain, lungs, etc. Brain pressure, from rupture of a blood-vessel.

AQUEOUS HUMOR. The clear fluid contained in the front chambers of the eye.

ARACHNOID. A thin, spider-web like membrane covering the brain.

AREOLAR TISSUE. The network of delicate fibres spread over the body, binding the various organs and parts together.

ARTERY. A vessel carrying blood from the heart to the various parts of the body; usually red in color.

ARTICULAR. Relating to the joints.

ARTICULATED. Jointed.

ARTICULATIONS. The union of one bone with another. A Joint.

ASCITES. Acc.u.mulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity.

ASPHYXIA. A condition of apparent death owing to the supply of air being cut off; as in drowning, inhalation of gases, sun-stroke, etc.

ASPIRATOR. An instrument for the evacuation of fluids from the cavities of the body, as water in abdominal dropsy, the contents of tumors, etc.

a.s.sIMILATION. Appropriating and transforming into its own substance, matters foreign to the body.

ASTRINGENTS. Medicines which contract the flesh.

ATONIC, ATONY. Wanting tone.

ATROPHIED. Wasted; lessened in bulk.

ATROPHY. Wasting away; diminution in size.

AUDITORY NERVES. The nerves connecting the brain with the ears and employed in exercising the sense of hearing.

AUSCULTATION. Diagnosing diseases by listening, either with or without instruments.

B

BALANITIS. Gonorrhea of the mucous surface of the head of the p.e.n.i.s.

BENIGN. Harmless; a term applied to tumors.

BEVERAGE. A liquor for drinking.

BILE. A yellow bitter fluid secreted by the liver. Defined on page 80.

BILIOUS. Disordered in respect to bile. Relating to bile.

BILIOUS TEMPERAMENT, VOLITIVE TEMPERAMENT. See page 173.

BIOLOGY. The science of life.

BISTOURY. A small cutting knife.

BLADDER (URINARY). The organ, situated behind the pubic bone, which holds the urine until its expulsion. Illus. pages 206 and 207.

BLEBS. Eminences of the skin containing a watery fluid.

b.l.o.o.d.y-FLUX. A disease characterized by frequent, scanty, and _b.l.o.o.d.y_ stools.

BOIL. An inflamed tumor which comes to a head and discharges matter and a core. See page 443.

BOLUS. A large pill.

BOUGIE. A long, flexible instrument used for dilating contracted ca.n.a.ls and pa.s.sages.

BREACH. Some form of hernia of the abdomen. See page 862.

BROAD LIGAMENTS OF THE UTERUS. Folds of the peritoneum which support the womb and contain the Fallopian tubes and ovaries. Illus. p. 206.

BRONCHEA. Tubes formed by the division of the windpipe. Illus. page 64.

BRONCHOCELE. Thick neck, goitre.

BUBO. An inflammatory tumor in the groin.