GLOSSARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL TERMS. 579 



Process — A prominence, or projecting part. 



PROGNOSis-^The art of judging of the course ana event of a disease by the 



symptoms. 

 Prolapsus Uteri — A falling of the womb. 

 Prolapsus Recti — A falling of the rectum. 

 Pulmonary — Relating to the lungs. 

 Pulsate — To beat, or throb. 

 Purgative — Having the power of cleansing. 



Pus — A peculiar fluid yielded from the blood in conseqence of inflammatiDn. 

 Pylorus — The part of the stomach through which the food passes to the intestine. 



Quiescent — Reing at rest ; having no sound. 



Rabies — The disease known as hydrophobia. 



Rachitis — Inflammation of the spine ; rickets. 



Ramify — To make branches. 



Raphe — A term applied to parts that look as if sewed together. 



Rarefy — To make or become thin. 



Receptacle — 1 hat which receives or contains. 



Rectum — The last part of the large intestine. 



Remittent — Ceasing for a time. 



Reproduction — The art or process of producing again. 



Respiration — Breathing. 



Retina — The part of the eye upon which the image is formed in the act of vision. 



Rickets— Diseased state of the bones. 



Sacral — Belonging to the os sacrum. 



Saline — Salty. 



Saliva — The spittle or secretion of the salivary glands. 



Sanguification — The making of blood; the process by which blood is produced 



from chyle. 

 Sanitary — Relating or conducing to the preservation of health. 

 Sciatica — A painful rheumatic aff'ection of the hip. 



Sclerotic — Hard ; a name given to the thick, white, outer coat of the eye. 

 Secrete — To separate some peculiar substance from the blood. 

 Sensorium — The seat of sensation ; the organ which receives the impressions. 

 SEPTic-ir-Promotiug putrefaction. 



Serum — The yellowish fluid which is left after the coagulation of blood. 

 Shank — The bone of the leg from the knee to the ankle. 

 Slough — To fall ofi"; to separate by disease. 

 Spinal — Belonging to the spine, or back-bone. 



Splint — A hard excrescence on the shank-bone — one of the bones of the hind leg. 

 Sporadic — Separate; scattered. 

 Sternum — The breast-bone. 



Strangulated — Choked; having the circulation stopped in any part. 

 Styptic — Astringents; having the property of restraining bleeding. 



