Fasting for the cure of disease/Glossary
GLOSSARY
ABDOMEN. The belly.
ABERRATION. A wandering from.
ABEYANT. Absence; suspension.
ABSCESS. A cavity containing pus.
ABSORPTION. The sucking in or taking up of a fluid
by anything. ABSTINENCE. Voluntary privation or self-denial in
diet, etc.
ACCOUCHEMENT. Confinement, lying-in, delivery. ACCRUE. To arise, to be added to. ACETONE. A chemical compound developed in the
body by fermentation of organic matters. ACID. As adjective, sour, tart. As noun, a compound
of the gas, hydrogen, with other substances. ADDENDUM. A thing to be added. ADENOID. A growth that resembles a gland. ADHERENT. Sticking to or grown to a surface. ADIPOSE. Fatty. ADJACENT. Lying near to. ADOLESCENCE. The period between puberty and
maturity.
ALIENIST. One who treats mental disease. ALIMENTARY CANAL. The digestive tube and accessory glands. ALKALINE. A salt of any kind that effervesces with
acids; the opposite of an acid.
ALLEVIATE. To lessen, to diminish, to allay.
AMELIORATE. To make better.
ANEMIA. A deficiency of blood and red corpuscles.
ANEMIC. Pertaining to anemia.
ANAESTHETIC. A substance producing insensibility or unconsciousness.
ANALOGY. Similarity of relations between one thing and another.
ANTISEPTIC. Preventing or destroying putrefaction.
ANUS. The lower opening of the alimentary canal.
APATHY. Deadness of the emotions, want of feeling.
APERIENT. A gentle purgative.
APOPLEXY. Paralysis from rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.
APPENDICITIS. Inflammation of the vermiform appendix.
APPENDIX (VERMIFORM). The worm-shaped appendage to the cecum.
ARTICULATION. A joint.
ASPHYXIATION. The condition caused by non-oxygenation of the blood ; suffocation.
ASSIMILATION. The act of absorbing nutriment, and its change into tissue, blood, etc.
ATROPHY. The wasting of a part from lack of nutrition.
AUGMENTATION. The act of increasing.
AUTO-INTOXICATION. Self-poisoning.
AUTOPSY. The examination of a body after death.
AUTO-TOXIN. Any poisonous substance originating within the body.
AXIOM. A self-evident truth.
BACILLI. The plural of bacillus.
BACILLUS. Any one of a genus of rod-like organisms, microscopic in size. B
BACTERIA. The microscopic organisms that cause putrefaction ; microbes ; bodies similar to bacilli, but differing in form.
BANEFUL. Harmful, poisonous.
BARRENNESS. The state of being incapable of producing offspring.
BILE. The yellow, bitter liquid secreted by the liver.
BIO-CHEMISTRY. The chemistry of living tissues.
BOLUS. Medicine made into the form of a pill.
BOUGIE. A slender cylindrical instrument, solid or hollow.
BOWEL. The intestine.
BLADDER. The membranous receptacle of the urine.
BRONCHIAL. Pertaining to the Bronchi or main branches of the Trachea.
BUOY. To support a person or his hopes.
BUTTOCKS. The rump, the protuberant part behind.
CALIBRE. The internal diameter of a rod or tube.
CANAL ALIMENTARY. The digestive tube and accessory glands.
CANCER. A malignant growth having a tendency to spread.
CANKER. An eating sore, especially in the mouth.
CAPILLARY. A minute blood vessel.
CAPSULE. A soluble shell for administering medicine.
CARBOHYDRATE. A compound of carbon with hydrogen and oxygen, the latter gases being in proportion to form water. CARBONIC ACID. A pungent, suffocating gas, the
product of respiration.
CARDIAC OPENING. The upper opening of the stomach, so-called because nearest the heart. CARTILAGINOUS. Of the nature of cartilage or gristle. CATARRHAL. Of the nature of catarrh, which is an
inflammation of the mucus membrane. CATEGORY. A list or class. CATHARTIC. A purgative medicine. CAUTERIZE. To burn or sear with substances or
instruments. CECUM. The blind pouch at the head of the large
intestine.
CELIBATE. One who is unmarried. CHOLAGOGUE. A medicine that promotes the flow of
bile.
CHYLE. The milky fluid of intestinal digestion. CIRCULATORY. Pertaining to the circulation of the
blood.
CIRRHOSED. Pertaining to cirrhosis. CIRRHOSIS. Thickening of the connective tissue of an
organ.
CLINICAL. Pertaining to a sick-bed or clinic. CLOT. A mass of thickened blood. COAGULATED. Thickened (as of fluids), curded. CODEIN. One of the alkaloids derived from opium. COLIC. Spasmodic pain in the abdomen. COLLATERAL. Accompanying, aiding. COLON. The superior part of the large intestine. COLON TUBE. A long rubber tube for insertion
through anus and sigmoid flexure into the colon. COMA. An abnormally deep sleep; stupor.
COMATOSE. In a condition of coma.
COMMENSURATE. Having the same measure or extent; equal, proportional.
COMMINUTION. The process of breaking into pieces.
CONCOMITANT. Accompanying; existing in conjunction with.
CONDIGN. Adequate, deserved.
CONGENITAL. Existing from birth; innate.
CONGESTION. Excess of blood in a part.
CONSERVE. To preserve or protect from injury or loss.
CONSTIPATION. Sluggish action of the bowels.
CONTAGION. The communication of disease by contact.
CONTINENT. Complete abstinence from indulgence in sexual intercourse.
CONVALESCENCE. The period of recovery after disease.
COORDINATION. Harmonious action, as of muscles.
CORD, SPINAL. The cord of nerve tissue in the canal of the spinal column.
CORD, UMBILICAL. The navel-string attaching the foetus to the placenta or after-birth.
CORIUM. The deep layer of the skin.
CORROSIVE. A substance that eats away or destroys.
CORRUGATION. A contraction into wrinkles or folds.
CRISES. The plural of Crisis, a turning-point in any matter.
CRITERIA. The plural of Criterion, a standard by which anything is judged.
CROUPOUS. Pertaining to Croup, which is acute inflammation of the larynx and trachea.
CRUX. The cross, the central point. CULT. A system of religious belief.
CURD. The coagulated or curdled part of milk, which
is usually made into cheese. CUTANEOUS. Pertaining to the skin. CUTICLE. The epidermis or outer layer of the skin. CYST. A membranous sack containing fluid.
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DEBILITY. Weakness, loss or want of strength.
DECOMPOSITION. Putrefaction, decay.
DEGENERATE. Fallen off from a better to a worse
state ; declined in natural or moral worth. DELIRIUM. Mental aberration due to disease. DELIVERY. Parturition, child-birth. DENSITY. The quality of being close or compact. DENUDE. To make bare or naked. DEPLETE. To reduce, to lessen. DESIDERATA. Plural of Desideratum, a state of things
to be desired. DETERIORATION. The act of reducing anything in
value or quality.
DETRIMENTAL. Causing hurt; injurious. DIAGNOSIS. The recognition of disease from its
symptoms.
DIAGNOSTICIAN. One skilled in diagnosing. DIAPHRAGM. The muscular wall between the chest
and the abdomen. DIARRHEA. Excessive discharge of fluid evacuations
from the bowels.
DIET. Food; a system of feeding. DIETARY. Pertaining to diet; a system of feeding. DIETETICS. The branch of treatment referring to diet. DIETITIAN. One skilled in dietetics.
DIGESTION. Conversion of food into form suitable for
assimilation. DIGITALIS. Drug made from the poisonous plant,
Foxglove, used as a heart stimulant. DILATE. To enlarge in all directions. DISINTEGRATION. The breaking-up of a body into its
parts. DISLOCATION. A displacement of organs or of the
surfaces of the articulations or joints. DISPARITY. Inequality. DISSECT. To separate the parts of. DISSOLUTION. Death. DOGMA. A doctrine put forward to be received on
the authority of the propounder. DORSAL. Pertaining to the back; as to vertebrae,
those lying between the neck and the loins. DOUCHE. A stream of water directed upon a part. DRASTIC. Powerful, acting with strength. DUCT. A tube to convey a liquid. DUODENUM. The first part of the small intestine. DYSPEPSIA. Impaired or imperfect digestion.
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EFFLUVIUM. An exhalation or vapor perceivable by the sense of smell.
e. g. For example.
EJECT. To cast out.
ELIMINATION. The act of expelling, excreting, casting out.
EMACIATED. Thin from loss of flesh.
EMANATION. An effluvium; that which proceeds from
a body. EMBOLISM. The obstruction of a blood-vessel by a blood-clot.
EMETIC. A substance that causes vomiting.
EMPIRICAL. Depending upon experience or observation.
ENEMA. A liquid injected into the rectum.
ENEMATA. The plural of Enema.
EPICURE. One who gives himself up to the enjoyments of the table.
EPIDEMIC. Common to many people; a prevailing ailment.
EPILEPSY. Falling sickness; a nervous affection with loss of consciousness and convulsions.
EQUILIBRIUM. A state of balance.
ERADICATE. To root out; to exterminate.
EROTIC. Pertaining to sexual passion.
ETHER. The subtle fluid filling all space; also a colorless fluid used as an anaesthetic.
EVACUATION. The act of causing a discharge from any of the excretory passages.
EVAPORATION. The process of turning into vapor.
EXCRESCENCE. An abnormal outgrowth of the body.
EXCRETE. To throw off worn-out material.
EXPECTORATION. The process of ejecting matter from the lungs or trachea by spitting.
EXTIRPATE. To cut out or off; to eradicate.
EXTRA-UTERINE. Outside the uterus.
EXUDATION. The state of being emitted like moisture through the pores.
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FALLACY. That which deceives or misleads the eye or the mind. FALLOPIAN TUBE. One of the two small tubes on each side of the uterus that convey the ova from the ovaries.
FANATICISM. Extravagant notions or opinions.
FECAL. Pertaining to the discharge of the bowels.
FECES. The discharge of the bowels.
FERMENT. To change by chemical action.
FETID. Having an offensive smell.
FETUS. The young in the womb after it is perfectly formed, i. e., after the fourth month of gestation.
FICTITIOUS. Imaginary, false, not real.
FILAMENT. A thread-like structure.
FILTER. To strain from solid particles.
FLEXIBILITY. The quality of being easily bent.
FLUCTUATING. A rising and falling suddenly; unsteadiness.
Focus. The meeting-point of reflected or refracted rays of light.
FOMENTATION. The application of warm liquids to the body.
FUNCTION. The normal or special action of a part.
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GALL-BLADDER ~) The pear-shaped sac in the right GALL-CYST lobe of the liver, the reser GALL-SAC ) voir for the bile.
GALL-STONES. Stones built up of layers of carbonate
of lime in the gall-bladder and its ducts. GANGLIA. Plural of Ganglion, a sub-nerve center. GANGRENE. The mortification or death of soft tissue. GASTRIC. Pertaining to the stomach. GELATINOUS. Resembling gelatine; jelly-like. GENITAL. Pertaining to the organs of generation.
GERM. A microbe or bacterium.
GERMICIDE. An agent destroying germs.
GESTATION. The act of carrying young in the uterus from the time of conception to that of delivery.
GLAND. A secretory organ.
GLEET. Chronic state of gonorrhea with discharge.
GONOCOCCUS. The specific germ of gonorrhea.
GONORRHEA. A contagious inflammation with discharge from the genital organs.
GRANULATION. Formation of small elevations on a healing surface.
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HEART. The hollow muscular body, the center of the circulatory system.
HEMISPHERE. Half a sphere; as to the brain, one of the upper spheroidal portions.
HEMORRHAGE. A flow of blood from the vessels.
HICCOUGH. A sudden inspiration followed by expiration accompanied by a noise.
HYGIENE. The science of health.
HYPERTROPHY. Abnormal increase in size of a part or an organ.
HYPOCHONDRIAC. One affected with morbid anxiety regarding the health.
HYPOTHESIS. A supposition.
HYSTERIA. A nervous disorder of females with innumerable symptoms of an emotional nature.
ILEO-CECAL. Pertaining to the Ileum and Cecum.
ILEUM. The lower half of the small intestine.
IMBIBED. Taken in by drinking.
IMMUNITY. Freedom from risk of infection.
IMPACTED. Wedged in.
IMPEDE. To hinder; to obstruct.
IMPETUS. The force with which any body is driven or impelled.
IMPINGE. Literally, to fall against; in Osteopathy used with reference to nerves pinched between adjacent vertebrae.
IMPOTENCE. A lack of sexual power.
INANITION. Exhaustion arising from organic inability to assimilate food.
INCEPTION. The beginning.
INCOHERENCY. The quality of being unconnected in ideas, speech, etc.
INCREMENT. Increase or growth.
INCUMBENT. Resting upon one as a duty or obligation.
INDICES. Plural of Index, that which serves to point out,
INDUBITABLE. Not to be doubted.
INFECTION. The communication of disease-germs.
INFILTERING. Sifting in, or filtering in.
INFLUX. An inflow.
INGEST. To introduce food into the body by the mouth.
INHALE. To draw into the lungs.
INJECTION. Forcing of liquid into a cavity or vessel of the body.
INSALIVATE. To mix food with saliva during mastication.
INSIDIOUS. Sly, treacherous.
INTENTION. The process of healing. INTERIM. The meantime; the intervening time or
period.
INTERMITTENT. Occurring at intervals. INTERSTICES. Spaces; intervals; pores. INTUSSUSCEPTED. One part slipped into another, said
of the intestines. ITERATION. Repetition; the act of repeating.
JEJUNUM. The second portion of the small intestine
of which it forms two-fifths. JUGULAR. Pertaining to the neck. The jugular veins
are three in number; their office is to return
the blood from the head.
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KATABOLISM. A retrograde change in the tissues of
the body. KIDNEYS. The organs secreting urine.
LARYNX. The upper part of the windpipe; the organ
of voice.
LASCIVIOUS. Lewd, lustful. LASSITUDE. Weakness, exhaustion. LESION. Structural tissue change from injury or
disease.
LEUCORRHEA. A whitish discharge from the vagina. LIGAMENT. A band of fibrous tissue binding parts
together. LIVER. The largest glandular organ of the body, secreting bile.
LOBE. A rounded division of an organ.
LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA. A peculiar form of apparent paralysis with unsteady and disorderly muscular movements.
LONGEVITY. Long life.
LUBRICANT. A substance producing slipperiness, usually an oil or a grease.
LUMEN. The caliber of a tube, afs of the bowels or blood-vessels.
LUNGS. The organs of respiration.
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MALIGNANT. Virulent; fatal.
MALNUTRITION. Poor nutrition.
MAMMALS. Animals who suckle their young.
MANDATORY. Containing an order or command.
MANIA. Delirium or madness.
MANIPULATION. Treatmentwith the hands ; handling.
MASSAGE. Manipulation; methodic pressure, friction,
and kneading of the body. MASTICATION. The process of chewing. MASTURBATION. The production of the sexual orgasm
in a manner other than natural. MAXIMUM. The greatest quantity. MEDIUM. That in which anything lives; surrounding
conditions.
MELANCHOLIA. Depression of spirits ; gloominess. MEMBRANE. A thin enveloping or lining substance. MENOPAUSE. The end of the menstrual life; the
change of life. MENSES. The monthly flow from the womb.
MENSTRUAL. Pertaining to the menses.
MESENTERY. The membrane which forms the attachment between the small intestines and the abdomen.
METABOLISM. A change in the intimate condition of cells, constructive or destructive.
MICROBE. Any minute or micro-organism.
MICRO-ORGANISM. A minute organism.
MINIMUM. The smallest quantity.
MISNOMER. A mistaken or misapplied name.
MITIGATION. The process of making milder or abating.
MITRAL. Miter-like; applied to the valve situated at the left auricular opening of the heart.
MOBILITY. The property of being easily moved.
MORBID. Not healthy; diseased; pertaining to disease.
MORTALITY. The death rate; the state of being mortal.
MOTOR. Applied to muscles and nerves moving a part.
MUCOSA. A mucus membrane.
Mucus. The viscid liquid secretion of mucus membrane.
MUTATION. The act of changing; change.
MYOPIA. Near-sightedness.
MYOPIC. Pertaining to Myopia.
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NARCOTIC. Medicine that produces sleep or torpor.
NASAL. Pertaining to the nose.
NAUSEA. Sickness at the stomach; a desire to vomit.
NAVEL. The narrow and deep impression in the center of the abdomen, marking where the fetus was attached to the placenta by the umbilical cord; the umbilicus.
NEUTRALIZE. To render negative or inactive.
NOSTRILS. The two apertures or cavities in the nose which give passage to the air and to the secretions of the nose.
NOSTRUM. A secret formula for a medicine, and the. medicine itself.
Noxious. Harmful; poisonous.
NUTRIENT. A nutritious substance; conveying nutriment.
NUTRITION. The process of assimilation of food.
NUTRITIVE. Affording nutrition.
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OBESITY. Fatness; corpulence.
OCCLUDE. To block up.
OMENTUM. A fold of the peritoneum connecting the abdominal viscera with the stomach.
OPIATE. A medicine compounded with opium; a narcotic.
ORIFICE. A mouth or entrance; an opening.
ORTHODOX. In accordance with that commonly held as true.
Os. A mouth; as to the uterus, its opening into the vagina.
OVARY. The organ of generation in the female, producing the ova or eggs.
OVUM. The female reproductive cell ; an egg. Plural,
Ova. OXYGEN. One of the gaseous elements ; the supporter
of life and combustion.
PABULUM. Food; anything nutritive.
PACK. A moist towel or blanket placed on a patient.
PALPATION. Exploration with the hand.
PANCREAS. A digestive gland in the abdomen; the sweetbread.
PARADOXICAL. Inclined to notions seemingly impossible.
PARALYSIS. Loss of sensation or voluntary motion.
PARASITE. An organism that inhabits another organism and obtains nourishment from it.
PASTEURIZE. To destroy the microbic life by heating the substance.
PELVIS. The bony basin at the lower part of the trunk.
PER. A Latin preposition havine the force of, passage through, by.
PERIOSTEUM. A dense lining membrance covering the surface of the bones of the body.
PERISTALSIS. The worm-like motion of the bowels, causing downward movement of their contents.
PERITONEUM. The membrane lining the inner surface of the abdomen.
PERITONITIS. Inflammation of the Peritoneum.
PERMEATE. To pass through the pores of.
PERNICIOUS. Highly destructive; fatal. PHARYNX. The muscular membranous sac behind the
mouth.
PHYSIOLOGY. The science of the functions of the body. PHYSIQUE. The physical structure of an individual. PICKET-LINE. A line of guards posted in front of
an army to give notice of the approach of the
enemy. PLEURAL. Pertaining to the Pleura or membrane
enveloping the lungs. PLIABLE. Easily bent. PNEUMOGASTRIC. Pertaining to the lungs and the
stomach.
POLEMICAL. Argumentative; controversial. PNEUMONIA. Inflammation of the lungs. PORE. A small opening in the skin. PORTAL. Pertaining to the Portal Vein which carries
the blood to the liver. POST MORTEM. Occurring after death. POST NATAL. Occurring after birth. POTENTIAL. As adj ective, powerful ; as noun, possessing power.
PRECLUDE. To shut out; to stop. PREGNANCY. The condition of being with child. PRESCRIBE. To lay down rules or directions ; to direct
to be used as a remedy.
PRIMORDIAL. First in order; primary, original. PRISTINE. Belonging to an early period or state;
original, primitive.
PROCREATION. Reproduction, generation.
PROGNOSIS. Prediction of course and end of disease.
PROLAPSED. Fallen down.
PROPAGATE. To generate; to produce.
PROSTATE. A glandular body situated around the neck of the bladder in the male.
PROTEID. An albuminoid constituent of an organism.
PROTEIN. The sulphur-free residue of a proteid after the action of caustic potash.
PROTOPLASM. Primitive organic cell-matter; germinal matter.
PSORIASIS. A chronic inflammatory skin-disease with scale formation.
PSYCHO-THERAPY. The treatment of disease by mental influence.
PUBERTY. The age of capability of reproduction.
PULSATION. A beating or throbbing sensation.
PULSE. The beat or shock felt in any artery when slight pressure is made on it, caused by the contraction of the heart.
PURGATIVE. A substance causing watery evacuations from the bowels; a cathartic.
Pus. A thick yellow fluid, the product of suppuration.
PUTREFY. To cause to rot or decay with an offensive odor.
PYLORUS. The opening of the stomach into the duodenum.
PYORRHEA. A discharge of pus, usually associated with the sockets of the teeth.
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QUASI. Almost; something which resembles.
QUOTA. A proportional share or part.
RASH. An eruption on the skin.
RATION. A stated or fixed amount; an allowance.
RATIONAL. Reasonable.
RATIONALE. A statement of reasons.
RECIPROCAL. Mutual; mutually interchangeable.
RECTUM. The lower part of the large intestine.
RECUMBENT. Reclining; lying.
RCUPERATION. Return to health; convalescence.
RECUR. To occur again; to be repeated after intervals.
REFLEX. An involuntary action from nerve-stimulus.
REFUTE. To prove to be false or erroneous.
REGIME. Mode or system of rule or management.
REGIMEN. The methodic use of food.
REGURGITATION. The flowing back into the vessels of the heart of the blood which has just left them.
RELAXATION. Absence of tension, usually with reference to the muscles.
REMEDY. An agent used in the treatment of disease.
REPLICA. A copy of an original.
RESIDUE. That which remains.
RESPIRATION. Inspiration and exhalation of air by the lungs.
RHEUMATISM. A disease symptom with fever, pain, inflammation and swelling of the joints.
RIGIDITY. Stiffness; immobility.
ROTARY. Having a motion on its axis like a wheel.
ROTATION. Turning on the axis.
RUDIMENT. That which is unformed or undeveloped. SACRUM. Five vertebrae at the lower extremity of the spinal column that rapidly diminish in size from above downwards and are united into one mass in the adult.
SALISBURY TREATMENT. A system of treatment employing meat and hot water.
SALIVARY. Pertaining to the saliva.
SALIVATION. An excessive secretion of saliva.
SALPINGITIS. Inflammation of a Fallopian tube.
SALUTARY. Promotive of health.
SATURATION. The condition of holding in solution all of a solid capable of being contained.
SCROFULA. A constitutional condition with glandular tumors and a tuberculous tendency.
SCURVY. Affected or covered with scurf or scabs.
SECRETE. To separate from the blood.
SENSORY. Pertaining to sensation.
SENSUAL. Pertaining to the senses or bodily organs of perception.
SEPTIC. Relating to putrefaction.
SEPTICEMIA. A morbid condition from the absorption of septic products.
SEQUENCE. A following or coming after; succession.
SEROUS. Having the nature of serum.
SERUM. The fluid constituent of the blood.
SIGMOID FLEXURE. The S-shaped portion of the colon above the rectum.
SIMULATE. To assume the likeness of; to feign, to counterfeit.
SINUS. A hollow. In Anatomy the term is applied especially to a dilated vein or receptacle of
blood.
SITZ-BATH. A bath in a sitting posture.
SLOUGH. To separate from the living part, as the dead part in mortification.
SOPHISTICATED. Not genuine.
SPECTRA. Colors.
SPINAL CORD. The cord of nerve tissue in the canal of the spinal column.
SPINE. The vertebral column.
SPLEEN. An oval organ behind the outer end of the stomach. Its use is unknown.
SPLINT. A support to hold fractured bones or inflamed joints rigid.
SPUTUM. Expectorated matter.
STERILIZED. Subjected to heat of sufficient intensity to destroy germ life.
STERTOROUS. Breathing with a sonorous sound.
STIMULATION. The act of exciting ; a quickly diffused but transient increase of vital energy.
STIMULUS. Anything exciting an organ.
STOMACH. The chief digestive organ of the body.
STRICTURE. A contraction of a duct or tube. The text refers to stricture of the urethra.
STRYCHNINE. A highly poisonous alkaloid made from Nux Vomica.
STULTIFACTION. Rendering worthless.
STUPEFY. To make dull or dead to external influences.
SUBCUTANEOUS. Under the skin.
SUBJACENT. Underlying.
SUBSERVIENT. Acting as a subordinate instrument.
SUBVERSIVE. Tending to overthrow.
SUDORIFEROUS. Carrying sweat.
SUPERFICIAL. Confined to the surface.
SUPERSEDE. To displace.
SUPERVENING. To take place; to happen; to occur.
SUPPURATING. Forming pus.
SUSTENANCE. That which supports life; food.
SYMPTOM. A sign of disease.
SYPHILIS. A chronic, infectious, venereal disease, which may also be hereditary, inducing cutaneous and other lesions.
TARTAR. The deposit of calcareous matter upon the teeth.
TENSION. The state of being stretched.
TENTATIVE. Based on experiment.
TERM. A definite period, as the full Term of gestation.
THERAPEUTICS. Science concerned with the application of remedies and the treatment of disease.
TISSUE. An aggregation of similar cells and fibers, forming a distinct structure.
TITILLATION. The act or sensation of tickling.
TONIC. An agent to produce normal tone of an organ or a part.
TONSIL. A glandular organ on each side of the throat.
TONSILITIS. Inflammation of the tonsils.
TOXICATION. The process of cumulative poisoning from septic products.
TOXIN. A poison formed by bacteria in both living tissues and dead substances.
TRACHEA. The windpipe.
TREMOR. Involuntary trembling.
TRUNK. The body except the head and the limbs. 368 TUBERCLE. A small nodule of glandular cells con stituting the condition called tuberculosis.
TUBERCULAR. Pertaining to or containing tubercles.
TUBERCULOSIS. An infectious disease due to a specific bacillus, characterized by the formation of tubercles.
TYPHOID. Resembling typhus. Typhoid fever is a continued acute, infectious fever, with intestinal lesions, etc.
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ULCER. Suppuration upon a free surface; an open sore.
UMBILICAL .CORD. The navel-string attaching the fetus to the placenta or after-birth.
UMBILICUS. The narrow and deep impression in the center of the abdomen, marking where the fetus was attached to the placenta by the navel-string; the navel.
UNITY. The state or condition of being one ; oneness ; singleness.
URETER. A tube carrying urine from kidney to bladder.
URETHRA. The excretory canal of the bladder.
URETHRITIS. Inflammation of the urethra.
URIC. Contained in or derived from urea, which is the chief solid constituent of urine, and is the principal waste product of tissue-decomposition.
URINE. The excretion of the kidneys.
UTERUS. The hollow muscular organ of the female
generative system in which the fetus is contained during pregnancy.
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VAGINA. The canal from the vulva to the uterus. VALVULAR. Pertaining to a valve. VEGETARIAN. One whose diet is vegetable. VENEREAL. Pertaining to sexual intercourse. VENOUS. Pertaining to a vein as opposed to an artery. VERITY. The quality or state of being true; truth. VERTEBRA. A bony segment of the spinal column.
Plural, Vertebrae. VICE VERSA. The reverse ; the terms of the case being
reversed. VIRULENCE. The quality or state of being extremely
poisonous. VIRUS. Any organic poison; the pus from an ulcer;
the result of some morbid action on the system. VISCERA. The contents of the body cavities. VISCID. Glutinous; ropy. Viscous. The same as Viscid. VISUAL. Pertaining to vision. VITIATE. To taint; to infect. VITUPERATION. Abuse. Viz. To, wit; namely; that is. VOLITION. The will to act. VULVA. The external female genitals.
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WET-NURSE. A woman who suckles the child 01
another. WHEY. The liquid part of milk separating from the
curd in coagulation. WOMB. The Uterus.