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retention of an excess of fluid in the eye, from closure 

 of the canal leading through the pectinate ligament 

 into Schlemm's canal. 



Knife (nif) [ME., knif, knife]. An instrument for 

 cutting. In surgery, knives are oi various shapes and 

 sizes, according to their use. K. -needle, a needle 

 with a cutting e< 1 li-cission of cataracts. 



Knitter's Cramp (nit'-erz kramp). See C amp. 



Knitting {nit'-ing) [ME., knit ten, to knit]. The 

 union and becoming rigid of a fracture. 



Knob («i'A) [ME. , knobbe, a knob]. A protuberance. 

 K.-root. See Collinsonia canadensis. 



Knock-knee [nok'-ne). See Genu valgum. 



Knoppern [knop'-ern) [Ger.]. Galls from immature 

 acorns of several species of oak, largely used in Aus- 

 tria for tanning. They contain from twenty-eight to 

 thirty-live per cent, of tannin. 



Knot (not) [ME. , knotte, a knot]. An interlacement of 

 ends or parts of one or more cords or threads so that 

 they cannot be readily separated. K., Clove-hitch, 

 a knot consisting of two single, contiguous loops, the 



Clove-hitch Knot. 



the primitive streak. K., Reef, a knot so formed that 

 the end- come out alongside of the standing parts and 



the knot doe.-, not jam. It is also called Square 

 Knot. K., Sailor's. Same as JC.,Jieef K., Square. 

 Same as A'., Reef. K., Staffordshire, a knot u 

 in ligating the pedicle in ovariotomy. The ligature 

 i.- passed through the pedicle, and withdrawn so as 

 leave a loop, which is passed over the tumor, and 

 of the free end- is then drawn through the loop; both 

 ends are then passed through the pedicle, tightened, 

 and tied. It is also called Taifs Knot. K., Stay, a 

 term applied by ballance and Edmunds, to a knot 

 by two or more ligatures in the following way: 

 i m each ligature separately is triad: thi first hitch of 

 a reel knot, whii b is tightened so that the loop lies in 

 contact with the vessel, without constricting it; then 

 taking the two end- on one -: ther in one hand, 



and the two ends on the other side in the other hand, 

 the vessel is constricted sufficiently to occlude it, after 

 which the reef-knot is completed. The simplest 

 method of completing the knot is to treat the two end- 

 in each hand as a .single thread, and to tie them as if 



Combined Surgeon's and Rkef Knot. 



Staffordshire Knot. 



Granny Knot. 



Reef, or Sailor's Knot. 



free ends toward each other. It is used for making 

 extension in the reduction of dislocations. K., Double. 

 Same as K., Friction. K., False. Same as A'. 

 Granny. K., Friction, one in which the ends are 

 wound twice around each other before they are tied. 

 K., Gerdy's Extension, resembles the clove-hitch ; it 

 is employed in making extension of the leg at the ankle. 

 K., Granny, a tie of a cord in which in the second 

 loop the end of one cord is over, and the other under 

 its fellow, so that the two loops do not lie in the same 

 line. This knot may easily be converted into a slip- 

 knot. K. -grass : I. Arrhenatherum odoratum ; 2. 

 Avena elatior ; 3. Hippuris vulgaris ; 4. Illecelrum ; 

 5. Polygonum; 6. Triticum repens. K., Hensen's, a 

 fixed point in the mammalian blastodermic vesicle at 

 which the formation of the primitive axis and notochor- 

 dal canal begins. It marks the anterior extremity of 



Surgeon's Knot. 



completing a single reef-knot. K., Surgical, a double 

 knot made by passing the thread twice through the 

 same loop. K., Tait's. See K., Staffordshire. K.- 

 weed, Centaurea nigra. See also Collinsonia cana- 

 densis. 



Knuckle (nnk'-l") [ME., knokel, a knuckle or joint]. 

 Any one of the joints of the phalanges with the meta- 

 carpal bones or with each other; also a loop of in- 

 testine. 



Knuckling {nuk / -ling) [ME., knokel, a knuckle or 

 joint]. In farriery, a partial dislocation of the fetlock- 

 joint, in which the relative position of the pastern- 

 bone to the cannon and coronet bone is changed, the 

 pastern becoming more nearly perpendicular, with the 

 lower end of the cannon-bone resting behind the 

 center line of the suffraginis, while the lower end of 

 this bone rests behind the center line of the coronet. 

 It is also called Cocked Ankles. 



Kobelt's Tubes, blind tubes of the parovarium. 



Koch's Apparatus. An apparatus for air-analysis. K., 

 Bacillus of. See Bacteria, Synonymatic Table of. 



