GLOSSARY OF SCIENTiriC TERMS. 1267. 



Suture — A stitch or fastening on joining together. The seam or joint 



which unites the bones of the skull. 

 Symmetry — As applied to animals, signifies that they are well propor- 



tioi.ed, handsomely and stoutly formed. 

 Sympathy — The connection existing ])etween two or more oigans, by 



which the diseased condition or abnormal action of one is transmitted. 



secondarily, to the others. 

 Symptom — Any circumstance observed to occur (jonstantly in the smimc 



form of disease, and serving to point out its true nature and seats • 



any change occurring in the progress of a disease, indicative of its 



course and probable determination. 

 Synovia — A fluid resembling the white of an egg, secreted at the joints 



and articulations, which it lubricates and keeps in healthful condition 



Jomt-oil, so called. 

 Tmnia — Literally, fillet or band. The scientific name of the tape-worm 

 Tarsus— The cartilage towards the edge of each eyelid, giving it shape 



and firmness. That part of the human foot with which the leg joiiAS, 



and whose front is called the instep. The hock-joint of the horse. 

 Tendon— T\\Q dense, fibrous structure in which a muscle ends, and b}' 



which it is joined to a bone. 

 Tent — A pledget or plug introduced into a wound. 

 Tenuity — The property of being thin, as rarefied air. 

 Testicle— 'T\\Q. male gland containing the seminal fluid. 

 Tetanus — A disease in which the muscles of voluntary motion are spas- 

 modically but persistently contracted, causing rigidity of the parts 



affected. When in the face it is called lock-jaw or trismus. 

 Therapeutics— T\ii\t part of medicme which relates to the discovery and 



application of remedies for diseases. The use of diet and medicines. 

 Thorax— ThQ chest, or that part of the body between the Heck and 



abdomen. 

 Thorough-pin — A bursal enlargement of the upper and back part of the 



hock of a horse. 

 7% rwsA— Ulceration of the cleft of the frog, and extending over the 



whole of it, with a discharge of fetid matter. 

 Tibia— ThQ large bone of the hind leg of the horse, etc. 

 Tonics — Agents which gradually and permanently improve the system. 

 Tonsil — An oblong gland situated on each side of the fauces, terminated 

 by the larynx and pharynx, at the rear of the mouth and having ex- 

 cretory ducts opening into the mouth. 

 Torsion — The act of turning or twisting, as in drawing a tooth with the 



turnkey. 

 Trachea — The windpipe. 



