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Clinical (jcXiv?/), a bed to recline ; in a general sense pertaining to a 



bed ; short practical lectures at the bedside of a patient. 

 Convalescence (from convalesce), to grow strong or well. 

 Coryza (from Kapa, the head, and w), to void. A limpid, ropy, 



mucous defluxion from the nostrils. 

 Catarrh (from Kara, down, pew, to flow), a cold and inordinate dis- 



charge from a mucous membrane, as the nose, bronchi, c. 

 Comatose (icw/ia, a deep sleep), a drowsy, sleepy condition. 

 Chlorosis (from x^ w Pe green), green -sickness, peculiar to young 



ladies, from prolonged suppression of the natural periods. 

 Conjunctiva, the mucous membrane which covers the eyeball and 



lines the eyelids (from can, together, and///wv, to join), the white 



of the eye. 



Coma (from Kwpa, drowsiness), lethargic sleep. 

 Carcinoma, hard cancer. 



D 



Deglutition (deglutio, to swallow), the act of swallowing or bolting 



food. 

 Diabetes (from fltd, through, /3ai'v<i>, to pass or flow), a term given to a 



disease whose chief characteristic is an inordinate passage of 



sugary urine. 

 Dropsy (from hydrops, water), an effusion of water into the cellular 



_ under the skin, or, into some of the cavities of the body. 

 Digestion (from digero, to change), in Physiology, the change of the 



food into chyme by the secretions from the mouth and stomach. 

 Dyspnoea (from tfvc, difficult, and TTVCW, to breathe), difficulty in 



breathing, as from asthma. 

 Diagnosis (from yevuxTKo;, to discern), the distinction of diseases, the 



faculty of reading diseases. 

 Ductus communis choledochus, the common bile-duct leading from 



the gall-bladder to the intestines. 

 Dysentery, inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membrane of 



the colon, with loose bloody stools, peculiar to warm climates. 

 .psia, bad digestion. 



Etiology (from atria, cause, and Xoyoc, a discourse), an account of the 



causes of disease. 

 Empirical, versed in experiments. 

 Encephaloid cancer, cerebriform, or brain-like. 

 Epidemic, prevalent (from iirl, among, and ^^/xoc, a people). 

 Enteralgia, nervous pain in the bowels, "tic." 



F 



Fungus haematodes, bleeding cancer. 



