VULCANOL 



1610 



WANDERING 



Vulcanol {vul'-kan-ol) \_Vulcan, the god of fire]. A 

 thick, lubricating oil formed in great quantities in petro- 

 leum-refineries and in paraffin and solar-oil works. 



Vulgar (vuF-gar) [vulgaris, common]. Common. 

 Coarse. Unrefined. Popular. 



Vulnera (vul' '- ner - ah) [L.]. Plural of Vulnus. A 

 wound. 



Vulnerary (vul' - ner - a - re) [yulnus, a wound]. In 

 therapeutics, any remedy or agent useful in healing 

 wounds. 



Vulnus (vul'-nus) [L.: gen., Vulneris ; pl.,Vulnera]. 

 A wound. V. sclopetarium, a gun-shot wound. V. 

 simplex, an incised wound. 



Vulpian's Law. See Law. 



Vulpic Acid (vuT-pik). See Acid. 



Vulsella (vul-sel'-ah). See Vulsellum . 



Vulsellum (vul-sel' '- urn) [L.: //., Vulsella']. A kind 

 of forceps ; volsella. See Volsella. 



Vultus (vul'-tus) [L.]. The face, countenance, or 

 looks. 



Vulva (vul'-vafi) [volvere, to roll up]. The female 

 pudendum, though not, strictly speaking, including the 

 mons veneris. V. connivens, a form of vulva in 



which the labia majora are in close apposition. V., 

 Garrulity of, vaginal flatus. V. hians, the form 

 of vulva in which the labia majora are gaping. 



Vulval, Vulvar (vul'-val, vul'-var) [vulva, vulva]. 

 Pertaining to the vulva. 



Vulvate, Vulviform (vul' -vat, vul'-vi-form) [vulva, 

 vulva ; forma, form]. Shaped like or resembling the 

 vulva. 



Vulvismus (vul-viz' '-mus) . See Vaginismus. 



Vulvitis (vul-vi'-tis) [vulva, vulva; uric, inflammation]. 

 Inflammation of the vulva. V., Diphtheric, vul- 

 vitis with diphtheric deposit. V., Follicular, in- 

 flammation of the mucous follicles of the vulva. 



Vulvo- (vul'-vo-) [vulva, vulva]. A prefix denoting 

 relation to the vulva. 



Vulvo- vaginal (vul-vo-vaj'-in-al) [vulva, vulva; 

 vagina, vagina]. Pertaining conjointly to the vulva 

 and the vagina. V. Glands, the small glands situated 

 one on each side of the vulva near the vagina. See 

 Glands. 



Vulvo-vaginitis (vul-vo-vaj-in-i' '-tis) [vulva, vulva; 

 vagina, vagina; trig, inflammation]. Inflammation 

 of the vulva and the vagina. 



w 



W. The symbol of Tungsten (Wolfram). 



W. L. or 1. Wave-length. 



Wachendorf's Membrane. The fetal membrane of 

 the pupil of the eye. It atrophies about the seventh 

 month. See Membrane, Pupillary. 



Wachsmuth's Mixture. See Anesthetic. 



Waddle (zvod-l') [dim. of wade]. To sway or rock 

 from side to side in walking. 



Wade's Balsam. Friars' Balsam; Jesuits' 1 Drops; 

 a favorite vulnerary, essentially the same as the com- 

 pound tincture of benzoin. 



Wafer (7va'Jer) [ME., wafre, wafer]. A pharmaceutic 

 preparation made by pouring a thick, smooth mixture of 

 flour and water between greased, hot, polished plates or 

 cylinders, so adjusted that a thin sheet or wafer is pro- 

 duced. When dry this is hard and brittle, but when 

 moistened it becomes soft, tough, and slippery, and is 

 well adapted for taking medicines in the form of powder. 

 W.-ash. See Ptelea trifoliate. 



Wagner's Spot. The germinal spot or nucleolus of the 

 ovum. 



Wagner, Tactile Corpuscles of. Oval-shaped bodies 

 at the termination of nerve-fibers, regarded by Wagner 

 as directly concerned in the sense of touch. W. and 

 Meissner's Corpuscles, tactile end-organs lying in 

 the papillae of the skin. 



Wagnerian Corpuscles {wag-ner' -e-an). See Tactile 

 Corpuscle. 



'Wahoo (wah-hoo'). See Puonymus. 



Waist (wast) [ME., wast, waist]. The narrowest por- 

 tion of the trunk above the hips. 



Waistcoat, Straight (wdsl'-kot, strat). See Jacket. 



Walcher's Posture. The woman in the dorsal posi- 

 tion, the hips ;it the edge of the table, the lower 

 extremities hanging. 



Walcheren Fever (wal' '- cher - en) [from WaUhtrtH, 

 Netherland]. A severe type of malarial fever. 



Waldenburg's Apparatus. An apparatus constructed 

 on the principle of a gasometer, and used for compress- 



ing or rarefying air, which is inhaled, or into which the 



patient exhales. 

 Waldeyer's Glands. Acino-tubular glands at the 



attached border of the tarsus. W.'s Plasma-cells. 



See Plasma. W., Sulcus of, a spiral sulcus of the 



limbus of the ear. 

 Wale (wal). See Wheal. 

 Walk (ivawk) [ME. , walken, to walk.] I. Manner of 



walking. See Gait. 2. In Swedish physical training 



certain forms of progression are specified as walks. See 



Stretch-walk, Yard-walk. 

 Wallerian Degeneration. Degeneration of n 



after separation from their trophic centers. W. Law. 



See Law. 

 Wall-eye (waw-l'-i). A vulgarism used to express the 



appearance of leukoma of the cornea, or of eyes with a 



li^ht-colored iris; also, a divergent strabismus. W.- 



pepper. See Sedum acne. 

 Walnut (tool' -nut). See Juglans. 

 Walter's Ganglion. See Ganglia, Table of . 

 Walther's Angle. See Angle. W.'s Ducts,!' 



the sublingual gland. W., Oblique Ligament of, * 



band of capsular ligament of the ankle-joint, extending 



from the external malleolus to the eminence on 



astragalus for the flexor longus pollicis. 

 Wamble (wom'-bl) [UE.,7vamlen, mawkish]. 



ing of nausea; a heaving of the stomach. [Vu 



W. -cropped. Nauseated; sick at tin 



[Vulgar. ] 

 Wan (won) [ME., wan, wan]. Pale; pallid; of J 



sickly hue or expression. 

 Wandered {won'-derd) [MP., wanderen, to wander] 



Out of the usual or normal place; out of the 



habitat ; as a wandered scolex. 

 Wandering [won'-der-ing) [M P., wauderen, to wander]. 



1. Delirium; incoherence of speech or thought, • 



Having no fixed place. W. Abscess, one that point! 



at a considerable distance from its real seat. W. Cell. 



an ameboid connective tissue cell ; a leukocj 



