GLOSSARY. 60!) 



MAMMALIA. That class of animals that suckle their young. 



MEDIASTINUM. A membranous space between two layers of pleura, 

 extended from the spine to the upper surface of the breast bone. 



MEDULLARY. Relating to the marrow, or analogous to marrow. 



MELANOSIS. A disease in which tumours are developed, containing 

 a large amount of black pigment. 



METASTASIS. The translation (perhaps more properly an extension) 

 of a disease from one part to another. 



MONILIFORM. Having the appearance of a string of beads. 



MULTIPOLAR. Having many prolongations. 



NARES. The openings of the nose, anterior or posterior. 



NIDUS. Nest. Seat. 



NUCLEOLUS. A simple granule within a nucleus. 



NUCLEUS. The centre of a tumour or morbid concretion. A minute 

 cell within a cell. 



OMENTUM. Folds of serous membrane passing from one abdominal 

 organ to another are so called. 



OPISTHOTONOS. A species of lockjaw in which the body is bent 

 backwards. 



Os PEDIS. The principle bone of the foot. 



OVARIAN. Belonging to the ovary. 



PAPILLAE. A name given to small conical, vascular eminences on 

 the surface of the true skin or mucous membranes. 



PAPULAE. Small pointed elevations of the scurf skin with inflamed 

 base. 



PARAPLEGIA. Paralysis of the anterior or more commonly the pos- 

 terior half of the body. 



PARASITISM. The condition of a parasite or of an organised body, 

 which lives on another organised body. 



PARENCHYMATOUS. Belonging to the texture of a glandular or 

 other organ. 



PATHOGNOMONIC. A characteristic symptom of a disease. 



PATHOLOGY. Diseased physiology. That branch of medicine whose 

 object is the knowledge of disease. 



PEDUNCLE. A flower stalk. Applied to different prolongations or 

 appendices of the brain. The constricted attachment or neck of a 

 tumour. 



PERITONEAL CAVITY. The sac of the peritoneum, or lining serous 

 membrane of the abdomen. 



PETECHLE. Small purple spots which appear on the skin and 

 mucous membranes in the course of certain maladies. They are at- 

 tended with great prostration. 



PHLEBOTOMIST. One who bleeds from the veins. 



PHLEGMON. A circumscribed inflammatory swelling, with increased 

 heat and pain, and tending to suppuration. 



PLEURAL CAVITY. The sac of the pleura, or lining membrane of the 

 chest and lungs. 



PLEUROTHOTONOS. A variety of tetanus in which the body is 



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