GLOSSARY OF SCIENTIFIC TERMS. 1259 



Lubricate — To moisten, as the lubrication of the joints and moving parts 



by their appropriate fluids. 

 Lumbago — Rheumatism of the lumbar region. 

 Lymph — A transparent and nearly colorless fluid. The fluid contamed 



in, and poured out by, the lymphatics. 

 Lymphatics — The vessels of animal bodies ^\hich contain the lymph. 

 Macerate — Steeped almost to solution. Thorough soaking of a part in 



water previous to dissection. 

 Malady — Disease or ailment. 

 Malar — Pertaining to the cheek-bone. 



Malanders — An ulcerous condition on the inside of a horse's legs. 

 Malaria — Infectious and noxious eflluvia, from decomposing animal or 



vegetable matter. 

 Malformation — Badly or unnaturally shaped or formed. 

 Malignant — Severe ; long ; dangerous disease. 

 Mammal — Having an udder or teats for suckling the young. 

 Mammary glands — The glands which secrete the milk. 

 Mange — A contagious disease caused by the presence of acari in the skin 

 Mai-row — The fatty substance in the hollow of cylindrical bones. 

 Mastication — The act of chewing the food. 

 Materia medica — A term including all medicines or substances used in 



the cure of diseases. 

 Maxilla — The upper or lower jaw. 



Mediastinum — The partition formed by the meeting of the pleura, divid- 

 ing the chest into tw'o lateral parts, and separating the lungs. 

 Medidlary — Consisting of, resembling, or pertaining to, marrow. 

 Membrane — A thin animal tissue. The thin covering of the brain, bones 



and other organs. 

 Mental — Relating to the mind, or to the reasoning faculty. 

 Mesentery — The membrane which attaches the intestines to the spine. 

 Mesacolon — A process of the peritoneum to which the colon is attached. 

 Metastasis — The transference or removal of disease from one part to 



another, or such change as is succeeded by a solution. 

 Miasma — Impalpable germs, the product of putrefaction (animal wr 



vegetable), producing disease. 

 Midrif — Th e di aph ragm . 



Milk fever — A fever preceding or accompanying the secretion of railk. 

 Morbid — A state of disease ; the product or result of an uimatural state, 



as morbid humors ; a failing, sinking state. 

 Mortification — The death of a part from gangrene. 

 Motor — That which causes, or is the instrument of, movemeiit; as, the 



motor muscles. 



