The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English Part 167

CLINICAL MEDICINE. Investigation of disease at the bedside.

COAGULATE. To thicken or harden, as heat hardens the white of an egg.

COITION. s.e.xual intercourse. The act of generation.

COLLAR-BONE (CLAVICLE). A bone at the front and top of chest, attached by one end to the breast-bone and by the other to the shoulder-blade.

COLON. Part of the large intestines. Illus. page 40.

COMA. A condition of profound sleep from which it is difficult to arouse the patient.

COMEDONES. Pimples on the face. See page 412, and Fig. 8. Plate II.

COMPRESS. A soft cloth folded to several thicknesses, so that with a bandage pressure can be applied, or by wetting in hot water, a part can be subjected to the influences of heat and moisture.

CONCEPTION. Impregnation of the ovum; the beginning of a new being.

CONGENITAL. Applied to a disease born with one; from birth.

CONGESTION. An abnormal amount of blood in a part or organ.

CONJUNCTIVA. The membrane which covers the external surface of the eyeball.

CONJUNCTIVITIS. Inflammation of the eye.

CONTAGION. The transmission of disease from one to another by contact, as hydrophobia, syphilis; or otherwise, as measles, scarlet fever, etc.

CONTAGIOUS. Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.

CONTINENCE. Abstinence from s.e.xual intercourse or excitement.

CONVALESCENCE. The recovery of health after sickness.

CONVOLUTED. Curved or rolled together.

COPULATION. s.e.xual intercourse.

CORIUM. A layer of the akin.

CORNEA. A transparent covering of the front of the eye.

CORPUSCLES OF THE BLOOD. Defined and ill.u.s.trated on page 53.

COUNTER-IRRITANTS. Defined on page 331.

COWPER'S GLANDS OF THE MALE. Glands situated in front of the prostate gland. Illus. page 207.

c.o.xALGIA. Hip-joint disease. See page 451.

CRANIUM. The skull. The bones of the head.

CRAYONS. Sticks or cylinders made of Cocoa b.u.t.ter and medicated.

CROSS-EYE. One or both eyes drawn towards the nose. Squint.

CRUSTACEOUS. Belonging to the cla.s.s of animals covered by a crust-like sh.e.l.l.

CUTANEOUS. Belonging to, or affecting, the skin.

CUTICLE. The outer layer of the skin, consisting of small bony scales.

CYSt.i.tIS. Inflammation of the bladder. In chronic form, Catarrh of the bladder.

D

DEBRIS. Broken-down tissue. Waste material.

DECOCTION. Defined on page 303.

DEFECATION. Voiding excrement from the body.

DEGENERATION, FATTY. The deposit of particles of fat instead of the proper muscular tissue.

DEGLUt.i.tION. Swallowing. Conveying food to the stomach.

DEJECTION OF MIND. Despondency. Low spirits.

DEJECTIONS. The matter voided from the bowels.

DELETERIOUS. Destructive. Poisonous.

DENt.i.tION. Cutting of the teeth in infancy.

DEODORIZER. A substance that destroys a bad smell.

DEPLETION. To empty the blood-vessels by lancing a vein or by medicines.

DEPRAVATION. Corruption.

DEPURATING. Cleansing.

DERMATOLOGIST. One who makes diseases of the skin a specialty.

DESICCATE. To dry up.

DESQUAMATION. Scaling off of the skin, after fevers.