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Phthisis — Consumption. 



Physiology — The science which treats of the phenomena and functions 



of animal life. 

 Placenta — The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the 



parent. 

 Plasma — The colorless fluid of the blood. 

 P/c;/(one— Having a full habit of body, full of blood. 

 Pleura — The serous membrane which lines the interior of the chest and 



covers the lungs. 

 Plexus — A net work of vessels, nerves or fi'bers. 

 Polypus — A tumor which grows from mucous membranes. 

 Portal Vessels — The cluster of veins that join and enter the liver. 

 Process — A prominence or projecting part. 

 Procreation — Generation and production of offspring. 

 Prohang — A leather instrument for unchoking animals. 

 Prohe — An instrument for examining wounds. 

 Prolapsus Uteri — A falling of the womb. 

 Prolapsus Recti — A falling of the rectum. 

 Prognosis — Opinion of the future course of a disease. 

 Prophylactic — Preventive. 

 Proteids — Foods composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen — 



as the white of an egg. 

 Protozoon — A primary division of the animal kingdom. 

 Pruritus — Itching. 

 Pruritus Tuha — A nervous disease attended with excessive itching of 



the external genital parts of the female. 

 Ptyalin — A ferment contained in the saliva of man and of most animals. 

 Puberty — The age at which the subject is capable of procreation. 

 Pulmonary — Relating to the lungs. 

 Pulsate — To beat or throb. 



Pupil — The circular opening in the colored curtain within the eye. 

 Purgative — A medicine which causes evacuations of the bowels. 

 Pus — Yellowish-white matter produced by the process of suppuration. 

 Pylorus — That portion of the stomach through which the food passes 



to the intestines. 



Quiescent — Being at rest. 



Quickening — The time when the motion of the fetus within the womb 

 is first perceptible. 



Rabies — The disease known as hydrophobia. 



Rales — Noise produced by air passing through mucus in the lungs. 



Ramify — To divide into branches. 



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



Receptacle — That which receives or contains. 



Rectal — Pertaining to the rectum. 



