182 GLOSSARY. 



Capsular. Applied to a ligament which surrounds every movable articu- 

 lation. 



Carpus. The knee of the horse, and wrist of the human being. 



Cauda. The tail. 



Cellular. Having little cells. 



Cervical. Belonging to the neck. 



Cervix. That part of the animal between the neck and shoulder ; applied 

 also to distinguished parts, as the cervix uteri, neck of the uterus, &c. 



Cord. An assemblage of fibres. 



Cineritious, (from cinis, ashes.) A name applied to the cortical substance 

 of the brain, from its resemblance to an ash-color. 



Commissura. A suture, juncture, or joint. 



Condyle. A round eminence of a bone. 



Conglomerate. Applied to a gland, which consists of a number of small 

 glands : such are the parotid and salivary glands. 



Constrictor. A name given to those muscles which contract an opening of 

 the body. 



Corona. A crown. The small pastern is named os corona. 



Coronoid. Processes of bones are so called that have any resemblance to a 

 crow's beak. 



Corpus. A body. 



Costa. A rib. 



Cremaster. A muscle of the testicle. 



Crico. Names compounded of this word belong to muscles which are 

 attached to the cricoid cartilage. 



Cuhoides. A bone in the knee of the horse is thus named, from its resem- 

 blance to a cube, or die. 



Cuneiform, wedge-like. A bone of the knee. 



Cuspidatus. The four tushes of the horse are thus named. 



Cutaneous, (from cutis, the skin.) Belonging to the skin. 



Cystis. Cyst, or bladder. 



D 



Dentatus, (from dens, a tooth, from its tooth-like process.) The second ver- 

 tebra of the neck is known by this process. 



Depressor. A muscle is so named, which depresses the part on which it 

 acts. 



Diploe. The spongy substance between the two tables of the skull. 



E 



Elevator, (from elevo, to lift.) A muscle is so called, the office of which is 



to lift up the part to which it is attached. 

 Empyema. A collection of pus within the cavity of the thorax. 



