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Amus — The fundament or lower extremity of the bowel. 

 Aperient — Opening, laxative. 



Aqueous — Watery; consisting of, or having the properties of water. 

 Aetert — The name of blood-vessels which carry blood from the heart. 

 Articulate — To join together. Applied to the bones. 

 Asthenopia — Weakness of vision. 

 Astringent — Binding or contracting. 

 Attenuate — To make thin. 



Auricle — The external part of the ear; also a part on each side of the heart, bo 

 called from resembling the ears of animals. 



Bisect — To divide into two equal parts. 



Bronchial — Belonging to the divisions of the windpipe. 



Biliary — Belonging to, or containing bile. 



Caloareous — Like lime. 



Callus — A hard deposit; excess of bony matter. 



Capillary — Hair-like. Applied to the extreme ramifications of the blood-vesaek. 



Capsule — A membranous bag inclosing an organ. 



Caries — Ulceration of the substance of bones. 



Cartilage— Gristle. 



Catarrh — A cold, attended with running of the nose. 



Castrate — To emasculate ; to deprive of the testicles. 



Cathartic — Purgative. 



Caustic — Burning, as potash. 



Cauterize— To destroy animal tissues by heat, as with a hot iron. 



Cephalic — Pertaining to the head. 



Cervical — Belonging to the neck. 



Cerebral — Pertaining to the brain. 



Chirurgical — Pertaining to surgery. * 



Chronic — Seated ; of long continuance. 



Chyle — The milky liquid prepared from the food, to be absorbed by the lacteal 



vessels, and supplied to the blood for nutriment 

 Chyme — The pulpy mass formed by digestion of the food in the stomach. 

 Cicatrise — To heal a wound, or induce the formation of a scar. 

 Clyster — A liquid substance injected into the lower intestine. 

 Coagulate — To turn from a fluid to a thick state. 

 Coffin-bone — The lower bone of the leg incased in its hoof. 

 Coition — Copulation; sexual commerce. 

 Colic — A painful disorder of the intestines. 

 Collapse — A falling together. 

 Colon — One of the large intestines. 

 Congenital — Born with; belonging to from birth. 

 Congestion — An accumulation of blood or other fluid in the vessels. 

 Constrictor — A binder or drawer together. Applied to the muscles. 

 Contagious — Capable of being communicated by touch. 



