OIXMSSABT OF SCIENTIFIC TERMS. 



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Chyme-^-^ThQ food modified and prepared by the action of the stomach. 

 Cicatrice — The scar left after the healing of a wound or ulcer. 

 Circumscrihed — Limited. In pathology applied to tumors distinct at 



their base from the surrounding part. 

 Circulation — The vital action which sends the blood through the aiteries, 



and back again through the veins to the heart. 

 Cleft — A mark ; division ; furrow. 



Clyster — Liquid medicine injected into the lower intestine. 

 Coagulate — To clot, as the blood when drawn. 

 C oh ion — Connected ; adhering together ; sticking together. 

 Colic — Acute pain in the abdomen, intensified at intervals. 

 Collapse — A falling together. A closmg of the vessels. Extreme de- 

 pression of the vital powers. 

 Colon — ^The largest of the intestines, or more properly, the largest divis* 



Ion of the intestinal canal. 

 Cmtiorh — ^The act of copulation ; union of the sexes. 

 Coma — Lethargy. Drowsiness produced by depression of the brain and 



other causes. 

 Comatose — Constant propensity to sleep. 

 Conception — Fecundation by action of the male. 

 ConeUHon — A healthy, sei-viceable state of the system. A firm state of 



the muscular tissue. 

 Congenital—Born with another ; of the same birth. Belonging to the 



individual from birth. 

 Congestion — An accumulation of clogged blood in the vessels, or in the 



parts, as the lungs, brain, etc. 

 Constrict — Drawing or binding together, as constriction of the muscles 



of a part. 

 Contagions — A disease that may be communicated by contact, or the 



matter communicated, or proceeding from the breath, or emanations 



of the body. 

 Contorted — Twisted, twisting, writhing, as the body in pain, or from the 



result of disease. 

 Contusion — A bruise ; a wound made by a blow or bruise. 

 Convex — Having a rounded surface. The opposite of concave. 

 Concretion — Adherence of parts naturally separate. In chemistry, coB* 



densation of fluids or other substances into more solid matter. 

 Condiment — Substances used to improve or heighten the flavor of food. 

 Confiuent — Running together, as in pimples or pustules when they 



become confluent. 

 V-nstipation — ^A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are unmat" 



'jjrally hai'd. A stoppage of the evacuation of the bowels. 



