GLOSSARY OF SCIENTIFIC TSRMS. 1253 



Effluvia — Morbid exhalations of the body ; sometimes applied to animal 



and vegetable odors. 

 Effusion^=-'A flowing out, as of the blood, water or lymph, into the 



Ejection — Casting out, as ejecting improper matters from the stomach. 



Elastio-^ThQ property of springing or stretching. 



Elephantiasis — Chronic lymphangitis, by which the limb is enlarged, 



resembling the leg of an elephant. 

 Emasculation — Removal of the male generative organs ; castration. 

 Embryo— ThQ impregnated ovum in the womb, after growth has com* 



meoced. 

 Emetic— A medicine given to produce vomiting. 

 EmoUients — Agents which have the power of softening or relaxing. 

 Empiric — One whose skill is experimental, or the result of mere ex- 

 perience. 

 Ena7nd~—ThQ hard outer covering of the teeth. 

 Encysted — ^Enclosed in a sac. 



Enema — Medicines given by injection into the bowels. 

 Engorgement — In animals, vascular congestion, the result of over-feeding. 

 Enteric — Belonging to the bowels. 

 Enteritis — Inflammation of the bowels. 



Enterorapliy — The sewmg together of the divided edges of the intestines. 

 £[p^t?e»^^o— Disease that affects a large number, as though carried in the 



air 

 Epiglottis — The covering of the glottis „ A tongue-shaped projection, to 



prevent food or liquids from entering the wind-pipe. 

 Epizootic — Contagious disease, attacking large numbers of horses at one 



time. Applied to catarrhal fever in influenza, which spreads rapidly. 

 Equine — Belonging to the horse. 

 Equitation — The art of riding on horseback. 

 Eruption — ^Pimples, blisters, rash, etc., breaking out on the skin. 

 Esopkagtts — The gullet, or tube of the throat which conveys food to the 



stomach. 

 Essence — The properties or virtues extracted from any substance. 

 Evacuate — To empty or pass out, as to evacuate the bowels. 

 Ewe-necked — In the horse, having a neck like a shorn sheep. 

 Exanthema — Eruption of the skin, with fever. 

 Excision — Cutting out, or cutting off, any part. 

 Excoriate — To tear or strip off the skin ; to wear away or abrade ; to 



break the skin in any manner, as in galling, or with acrid substancea* 

 J:ixcremenz — Hefuse matter. The dung, 

 ^iujreecence— Unnatural or superfluous growth. 



