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Fourchet, or Fourchette ') [It., a fork]. 



i A fold of mucous membrane at the posterior June 

 tion of the labia i -' V forked instrument 



used in division of the frenum lingu 



Fournier's Method 



Fovea | a small pit]. Applied to 



mai >sions in the bodj or it- organs, bul more 



ticularly to th , a little pit in 



the . i opposite the visual axis, the spot «>i 



distinctesl vision, where the retinal cones arc massed 



r and the rods and some other parts are absent. 



[t is nter of the cornea. F. hemiellip- 



tica, recessus ellipticus ; sinus semiovalis ; a small 



. the inner wall of the labyrinth, between the 



.1 hemispherica and the orifices of the semicircular 



F. hemispherica. recessus sphericus; a 



depression in the forepart of the inner wall of the 



labyrinth. 



Fove'ate small pit]. In biology, 



defj.lv pitted. 

 Foveola , a small pit]. I. 



A small pit 01 depression. 2. The depression at the 

 summit of each papilla of the kidney. F. coccygea, 



ression — a congenital defect — a little ab 

 the anus and at the apex of the coccyx. It is due 

 I development. F. inguinalis, a some- 

 what funnel-shaped depression in the external in- 

 guinal fossa. It is open in fetal life, and is the ab- 

 dominal end of the inguinal canal, through which the 

 1. F. radialis. See Anatomist' $ 

 S>: 

 Fovilla ih) [fovere, to warm, to cherish: pi. , 



]. In biology, the protoplasmic contents of a 

 pollen-grain. 

 Fowler's Method. A method of estimating the amount 

 of urea in the urine. It consists in mixing one volume 

 of the urine with seven volumes of liquor sodae chlo- 

 rate U. S P.) and comparing the specific gravity 

 before and al nee. See Urea. F.'s Solu- 



tion. £ nic. 



Fox's Apparatus. An apparatus for treating fracture of 

 the clavicle. It consists of a pad in the axilla with a 

 >ory apparatus from the opposite shoulder. 

 Fox-glove See Digitalis. 



Foxination n-a'-shuri). See Hypnotism. 



Fractional | frak' -shun-ai) [fractio, a breaking], I'er- 

 taining to fractions. F. Cultivation, the isolation of 

 one variety of microorganism from a mixture oi several, 

 in order tostudy or cultivate it. This is done by at- 

 tenuation oi dium so that a drop will probably 

 contain but line organism. Distilled water was first 

 the attenuating medium, but gelatinized media 

 now used. Brefeld and Nageli suggested the 

 procedure, and Lister isolated the first microbe, the 

 />'<; illu la in. F. Distillation. See Dis- 

 tills 

 Fractionation tn-a'-shun) \_fractio, a break- 

 ing ]. iration by sui perations. 

 Fractura [frak tur'-ah) [L.]. A fracture. F. dentis, 



fractun ith. 



Fracture fur) [ .to break]. 



The breaking ol a bone, either by external force, or 

 bj m of the mu b idy. Applied 



the breakinj F., Barton's, 



an oblique fracture ol thelowerem radius, begin- 



ning on the articulating surface. F.-bed, a doubly 

 inclined pla in the treatment of fractiu 



hip. F.-box box with noend r, used in 



immobilization of fractured bones. F., Capillary, 

 isisting of only a fi F., Commi- 



nuted, with shatterii F., Colles', one of 



the lower endof the radius with displacement back- 



ward. F., Complete, entirely through the bone. F. 



Comminuted Fracture of Claviclb. {Moultin.) 



Complicated, with injury of adjacent parts. F., 

 Compound, with a communicating wound of the skin. 

 F., Depressed, with depression of the fractured part 

 below the normal level, as in fracture of the skull. F., 

 Double, one bone is fractured in two places. F., 

 Dupuytren's, fracture of the fibula, with retraction 

 and displacement outward, and with laceration of the 

 ligaments of the foot. F., Epiphyseal, with separa- 

 tion of the epiphysis of a bone. F., Greenstick, one 



Greenstick Fracture ok the Radius. (Mont/in.) 



side of the bone is broken, the other bent. F., Im- 

 pacted, with forcible compression of the fragments 

 into each other. F., Moore's, fracture of the lower 

 endof the radius, with laceration of the internal lateral 

 ligament and detachment of the triangular interarticu- 

 lar cartilage, which allows of the dislocation of the 

 head of the ulna and the imprisonment of the styloid 

 process under the annular ligaments. F., Pott's, same 

 as /. , Dupuytren's, but without laceration of the in- 

 ferior tibio-fibular ligaments. F., Shepherd's, a frac- 

 ture of the astragalus, the outer projecting edge being 

 detached. F., Simple, without rupture of the over 

 lying skin or mucous membrane. F., Smith's, frac- 

 ture of the lower end of the radius, from a quarter of 

 an inch to an inch from the articular surface. F., 

 Spontaneous, with but a slight force to cause it, as 

 wdien there is disease of the bone. 



Fraenulum ( fren'-u-luni). See Frenulum. 



Frsenum {fre'-num). See Frenum. 



Fragilitas (fraj-il'-it-as) [L.]. lirittleness. In phy- 

 siology, a want of flexile strength. F. crinium, an 

 atrophic condition of the hair in which the individual 

 hairs split into numerous fibrillse, the cleavage in many 

 cases being recognizable as far as to the roots, the 

 fibrils often curling in several turns away from the 

 axis of the shaft. F. ossium, abnormal brittleness 

 of the bones. 



Fragmentation (frag-men-tal -shun) [fragmentum, a 

 piece]. The subdivision into fragments; the separa- 

 tion of certain form- of bacilli, or other microdrgan 

 isms, into joints which become new individuals ; the 

 division or segmentation of a cell. F. of Calculi, 

 Spontaneous, the exfoliation and breaking up of a 

 calculus by the action of the uric acid or other morbid 

 products in the bladdi I 



Frambesia ( fram-b ' e-aK) [frambcesia, raspberry]. 

 Yaws; Pian; Amboyna button; Parangi ; Coco; 

 Endemic Verrugas. A tropical contagious diseas 

 the skin, of long duration, characterized by dirty or 

 liii -In red raspberrj like tubercles, appearing usuallj 

 on tli'- face, io< -. and genital organ.-. It i- in isl fre 

 quent in young colored people. 



Frambesial ( fram be' ze-al) \ frambcesia,& raspberry], 

 Resembling, or pertaining to frambesia. 



Frambesioid ( fram i i[ frambcesia, a raspbei r) ; 



if, likeness]. Resembling frambesia, or one of its 

 tubercles. 



