GLOSSARY. GLUTEN INTESTINES. 597 



vocal ligaments, is the rima glottidis, the aperture of the glottis 



thus therVima glottidis is at the lower part of the glottis. 

 GLUTEN. The substance which remains after the separation of the 



starch from the flour of the cereals. It is a compound principle 



regarded by some chemists as consisting of fibrine, caseine, and 



glutine, which last strongly resembles albumen. 

 GRISTLE. The same as cartilage. 

 GULLET. The same as oesophagus : the canal leading from the 



pharynx or back part of the mouth to the stomach. 

 GUM. A form of arabine of which gum-arabic is an example. See 



p. 330. 

 GUTS. The same as intestines. 



H^EMADYNAMOMETER, An instrument for measuring the force of the 

 blood in an artery, by the height to which the column of blood 

 raises a column of mercury in a vertical tube. 



H.EMATO-CRYSTALLINE, H^MATOSINE Or H^EMATINE. The first IS 



a modification of the colouring matter of the blood sometimes 

 found in old extravasations that is, cavities of the solids in 

 which blood has been deposited ; the second is the true colour- 

 ing principle of the blood. 



11 .E M ATOPINU s. See Parasite. 



HIPPOBOSC.E. See Parasite. 



HIPPURIC ACID. An acid found in the urine of herbivorous animals, 

 as of the horse ; also more sparingly in the urine of man. It is an 

 azotised chemical body. See p. 311. 



HOMOLOGOUS. See Analogous. 



HONEYCOMB. The same as reticulum, bonnet, and king's-hood, the 

 second stomach in ruminants. 



HYDROGEN. The lightest substance known ; a simple body, forming 

 water along with oxygen, and existing in the organic frame of 

 plants and animals. See p. 296. 



ILEUM or ILIUM. The last part of the small intestines, terminating 

 in the caput caecum coli, 



INGLUVIES. The same as paunch. 



INTEGUMENTS. The outer coverings of the body: viz., the cuticle or 

 epidermis, and the corium, called also cutis vera, true skin ; and 

 derma, improperly dermis ; together with the hair, nails, or hoofs, 

 pigmentary matter, sebaceous and sudoriferous glands. 



INTESTINES. The same as the " guts : " the long canal which, under 

 the several successive names duodenum, jejunum, ilium, csecum, 

 colon, rectum leads from the lower orifice of the stomach to the 

 fundament. 



