The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English Part 172

LACHRYMAL GLANDS. Minute organs about the eyes which secrete tears.

LACTATION. The act of giving suck.

LACTEALS. The vessels of the breast which convey milk.

LAMELLA. Layer.

LAMINAE. Thin bones, or the thin parts of a bone.

LANCINATING. Acute, shooting pains fancifully compared to the pierce of a lance.

LARYNX. That portion of the air-pa.s.sage indicated in the male by "Adam's Apple."

LASCIVIOUS. l.u.s.tful; producing unchaste emotions.

LATERAL OPERATION. Cutting through the perinaeum into the bladder.

LAXATIVES. Medicines which move the bowels gently.

LESION. Derangement. Tearing or other division of parts, previously continuous.

LEUCORRHEA. Described on page 702.

LIBERAL PHYSICIAN. Defined on page 295.

LIGAMENT. A white inelastic tendon binding bones together.

LIGATION. See LIGATURE.

LIGATURE. A cord or catgut tied around a blood-vessel to arrest hemorrhage.

LINE. One-twelfth part of an inch.

LITHIC DEPOSITS. Sediment or stone formed in the urine by uric acid.

LOBES. Bound projecting parts of an organ; as lobes of the lungs, of the liver, etc.

LOIN. The side of the body between the hip-bone and ribs.

LOTION. A wash.

LUMBAGO. Rheumatism in the small of the back and loins.

LUMBAR VERTEBRae. That part of the backbone in the vicinity of the loins.

LYMPH. A transparent fluid, resembling blood, found in lymphatic vessels. It contains corpuscles and coagulates.

LYMPHATICS. Defined on page 49.

LYMPHATIC TEMPERAMENT. Described on page 157.

M

MALARIA. See MIASM.

MALFORMATION. Irregularity in structure.

MALIGNANT. Applied to diseases which threaten life.

MAMMae. See MAMMARY GLANDS.

MAMMALIA. Animals that suckle their young.

MAMMARY GLANDS. The b.r.e.a.s.t.s or organs which secrete milk.

MANIPULATIONS. Examination and treatment by the hand.

Ma.s.sAGE. Kneading, rubbing and stroking the surface to improve circulation and nutrition and to remove effete material.

MASTICATION. Chewing.

MASTURBATION. Excitement of the s.e.xual organs by the hand.

MEATUS. Ca.n.a.l or pa.s.sage. External opening of a ca.n.a.l.

MEDIAN SECTION. An operation for stone in the bladder in which the perineum and part of the urethra are cut; the prostatic portion of the urethra is dilated to introduce forceps and withdraw the stone.

MEDULLA OBLONGATA. Described on page 90; illus. page 96.

MELANCHOLIA. A mild form of insanity attended with great gloom and mental depression.

MEMBRANOUS. Of the nature or construction of membrane.

MENINGES. Membranes covering the brain.

MENORRHAGIA. Immoderate monthly flow.

MENSES. Monthly flow of the female. See page 686.

MENSTRUATION. The b.l.o.o.d.y evacuation from the womb.

MENSTRUUM. A solvent; as water, alcohol, etc.

MESENTERIC GLANDS. Glands about the peritoneum which secrete lymph.

MESENTERY. Described on page 49.