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Acupresmre — Arresting hemorrhage, as by means of a needle passed 



twice through a wounded substance at the side next the heart 

 Adamantine Substance — The enamel of the teeth. 

 Adenitis — Inflammation of a gland or glands. 

 Adermatrophia — Atrophy (wasting) of the skin. 

 Adhesion — A joining together, as the union of parts in healing. 

 Adhesive — That which adheres, as certain plasters. 

 Adij)ose — Fatty matter ; belonging to fat. 

 Adolescence — The period between puberty (the age of procreation) and 



the full development of the physical system. 

 Adult — The age succeeding adolescence, and preceding old age. 

 Aerate — Mixing with air, as the blood in the lungs, by which it absorbs 



oxygen. 

 ^doea — Genital organs. 



Etiology — Relating to the doctrine or probable cause of a disease. 

 Affection — Disease, or disease of some particular part. 

 Affinity — 'i'he attraction which causes particles of l)odies to adhere and 



form compounds. That which causes substances to cohere. 

 Affluence — Determination of the blood or of humors to a i)art. 

 Albuminuria — That condition in which the urine contains albumen and 



an excess of urea, coagulablc by means of nitric acid and heat. 

 Albumen — Substances, animal and vegetable, resembling the white of 



an egg. 

 Aliment — Solid or liquid substance tiiken as food. 

 Alimentary Canal — The bowels. 

 Alkali — Any substance which will neutralize an acid, as magnesia, soda, 



potash, etc. 

 Alkaloid — A saliflal)le base existing in some vegetaljles, differing from 



alkali in composition and general properties, and having nothing in 



connnon except their basic properties. Brucia, emetia, morphia, 



strychnia, etc., are alkaloids. 

 Alter — A term in common use for castration. 

 Alterative — A medicine chanii:in<r the functions and condition of the 



organs of the body. 

 Alum — Sulphate of alumina and potassa. 



Alveoli — The sockets in the jaw bone in which the teeth are situated. 

 Amaurosis — Partial or total loss of vision from paralysis of the retina. 

 Amputation — The operation in surgery of cutting off a limb. 

 Anoimia — Poverty of the blood as opposed to plethora. Too few red 



corpuscles and two nniny white corpuscles in the bh^od. 

 Anasarca — Dropsical swellings as of the limbs, abdomen, chest, etc. 

 Anbury — A soft spongy tumor. 



