GLOSSARY. 



ADVENTITIOUS. Unnatural, accidental or acquired. 



ALKALI ALCALI. Term for a substance which has properties the 

 reverse of those of an acid, and with which it combines so as to neutralise 

 its activity and form a salt. It has an acrid urinous taste and caustic 

 quality ; it changes vegetable dyes to green, renders oil miscible with 

 water, and is distinguished from an earth by its greater solubility. 



ALKALINE. Having the properties of an alkali. 



ALKALOID. A vegetable alkali. 



ALVINE. Belonging to the belly, stomach, and intestines ; applied to 

 the faeces or dung, 



AMAUROTIC. Pertaining to that blindness which is produced by 

 paralysis of the nerve of sight. 



AMORPHOUS. Without any regular form. Shapeless. 



ANASARCA. Watery effusion into the cellular tissue. Dropsy of 

 the limbs, &c. 



ANASTOMOSE. To communicate with one another ; applied to the 

 connection of blood-vessels and nerves by transverse branches. 



ANTEN^E. Applied to certain articulated filaments inserted in the 

 heads of the Crustacea and Insecta, and appearing to be devoted to a 

 delicate sense of touch. 



ANTIPERISTALTIC. The vermicular contraction of the intestinal tube 

 when that takes place in a direction from behind forwards. 



ANTIPHLOGISTIC. Against inflammation. Applied to medicines, 

 plans of diet, &c., which counteract inflammation by depressing the vital 

 powers. 



ANTISEPTIC. Counteractive of putrefaction. 



AORTA. The great artery which arises from the left side of the 

 heart, and gives origin to all other arteries except the pulmonary. 



APHONIA. Loss of voice. 



APHTHOUS. Having aphthae or blisters on the skin or mucous 

 membranes. 



APNCEA, Absence of respiration. 



APPENDICIS EPIPLOIOE. Masses of fat attached by pedicles to the 

 folds of peritoneum which support the intestines. 



ARTHRITIC. Pertaining to joint diseases. 



ATAXIC. Showing irregularity in the functions of the body or in 

 the symptoms of a disease. 



