GLOSSARY. 109 



Septole. The act of contraction of the heart an<l arteries, 

 usually applied to the contractions of the ven 

 tricles. 



T. 



Tabes. Wasting ; atrophy. 



Taenia. Tape worm. 



Tegument. A covering ; skin. 



Tenesmus Straining, bearing down. 



Tentative. Experimental. 



Tetanus. A disease characterized by muscular rigidity. 



Therapeutic. Sanative ; medical ; restorative ; prorno- 



tive of the cure of the disease. 

 Tinea. Ponigo, a disease of the skin, Tinea capitos, 



contagious ringworm 

 Tonic. In Physiology and Pathology, as applied to the 



muscles, tonic contraction means fixed rigidity. 



In materia medic a and therapeutics, a tonic is 



a stengthening medicine or agency. 

 Tormina. Griping pains. 

 Torula. A minute vegetation, found ( Torula cerevisiae) 



in fermentig liquids. 

 Toxaemia. Blood poisoning. 

 Toxic. Poisonous. 



Traeheitis. Inflammation of the trachae. 

 Transuldation. Passage of fluid through the walls of 



vessels. 



Traumatic. Resulting from a wound or injury. 

 Trichoma. Plica polonica. 

 Trismus Lock-jaw. 



Tuberculization. The deposition of tubercle. 

 Tuberculosis. The development of the tubercular dia- 

 thesis. 



Tumefaction. Swelling. 



Turgescense. Distension with fluid, usually with blood. 

 Tussive. Connected with cough. 

 Tympanites. Distention of the abdomen with air. 

 Typical. Representative, characteristic. 

 Typhoid, Resembling, and yet not identical with typhus. 



