GLOSSAHY OP SCIENTIFIC AND OTHER TERMS, IN GENERAL USE, 

 WITH THEIR DEFINITIONS. 



Ablactation — A weaning or cessation from sucklins:. 

 Abomasum — The last or fourth stomach of riuninating animals. 

 Abdomen — The portion of the body containing- the stomach and intestines ; 



the belly. 

 Abnormal — That which is not natural or regular. 

 Abortion — The casting of the young in an unnatural manner, and before 



the proper time. 

 Abrade, Abrasion — To rub off, to wear away by contact, as rubbing off 



the surface of the skin, j)roducing galls. 

 Abrupt — Quick, sudden ; an abrui)t turn or twist in the intestine maj- 



produce strangulation of the parts. 

 Abscess — A swelling and its cavity containing pus or matter. A cavity 



containing i)us. 

 Abscission — The cutting away or removal of a part. 

 Absorb — Swallowing up, drinking in. 

 Absorbent — In anatomy, those vessels which imbibe or suck up, as the 



lacteals or lymphatics. Jn medicine, any substance, as chalk, mag- 

 nesia, etc., used to absorb acidity in the stomach. 

 Absorption — The taking up by the vessels of the body of any substance 



either natural or unnatural, as the serum of dropsical swellings. 

 Acardiatrophia — Atrophy or wasting of the heart. 

 Aaphalhremia — Anaemia, or lack of blood, in the brain. 

 Accelerate — Growing quicker or faster, as an accelerated pulse. 

 Acid — Sour. The last fermentation before the putrid. 

 Acidulate — To make slightly sour, as with lemon, vinegar, or the UAin 



eral acids. 

 Accretion — Increase, or growing as an exostosis or umiatural growth of 



bone. 

 Aceni — Stony growths of the liver, resembling berries. 

 Acrid — Sharp, pungent, biting, irritating, as the. strong acids. 

 Acute — Severe, sharp. In diseases, those which soon come to an end in 



contradistinction to chronic. 

 Action — The paces of a horse, either natural or acquired. 

 Actual — The production of an immediate effect, as by the use of a hot 



iron (actual cautery) in contradistinction to the effect of cscharotics, 



as a caustic application. 



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