SOME NEURAL TERMS. 



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of intelligence between writers and readers of different nation- 

 alities." 



The international advantages of paronyms over heteronyms 

 have been distinctly recognized, and the principle indorsed, by 

 the American branch of the International Committee of Bio- 

 logical Nomenclature and by the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science (Proceedings, 1892, 233). 



That mononyms are more readily and uniformly paronymized 

 than polyonyms, and dionyms than other polyonyms, has been 

 already mentioned (p. 116) and is, indeed, self-evident. 



IV. 1889-94. But the recognition of the nature and causes 

 of neuronymic hypertrophy and deformity, and even the formu- 

 lation of general principles of relief, still left unaccomplished 

 the necessary operations of excision and correction. My in- 

 ability to decide in season which should be regarded as the 

 names, and which as merely synonyms, was one of the reasons 

 for not accepting the invitation of Dr. Foster to frame the 

 definitions in the dictionary above mentioned. Partial lists had 

 been prepared in connection with the Anatomical Technology 

 ('82) and the Cartwright Lectures ('84). The latter list con- 

 tained 1 1 5 names, exclusive of the fissures, and gyres, and 

 blood-vessels. In connection with a paper, entitled " Owen's 

 Nomenclature of the Brain " ('90), there was presented to the 

 Association of American Anatomists a " Macroscopic Vocabu- 

 lary " of about 200 names, with synonyms and references. The 

 vessels, fissures, and gyres were estimated at 140, and lists of 

 them were published at various periods ('85, '86). 



This made a total of about 340 parts or features of the 

 central nervous system, the designations of which I had selected 

 or framed from among the vast accumulation of available terms. 

 These names had already been found serviceable in the research 

 and instruction carried on under my direction; they were em- 

 bodied in the articles on the gross anatomy of the brain; 1 and 

 questions involved in their adoption were discussed by S. H. 

 Gage and myself in " Anatomical Terminology " ('89). 



1 Brain, gross or macroscopic anatomy, Buck's Reference Handbook of the 

 Medical Sciences, VIII, pp. 58, 104 figs., 1889. Brain, malformations of, which 

 are morphologically instructive, same, pp. 6, 10 figs. Brain, removal, preserva- 

 tion and dissection of, same, pp. 7, 5 figs. 



