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matory, malignant measles marked by very high fever 

 and catarrhal symptoms. M., Purpuric, hemorrhagic 

 measles. M., Septic, malignant measles. M. of 

 Swine. See Measles (2) (Illus. Diet.). M., 

 Synochal, inflammatory measles. 



Meat. (See Illus. Diet.) M. -flour, beef dried and 

 pulverized. M. -sugar, inosite. 



Meatal {me-at'-al). Pertaining to a meatus. 



Meatus. (See Illus. Diet.) M. acusticus. See M. 

 auditorhis (Ulus„ Diet.). M., Fishmouth, a red, 

 inflamed state of the urinary meatus occurring early in 

 acute gonorrhea. M. nasi communis, the part of 

 the nasal cavity into which the three meati open. M. 

 nasopharyngeus, that part of the nasal cavity com- 

 municating with the pharynx beneath the body of the 

 sphenoid. M. of Sylvius, Gratiolet's name for the 

 space between the precornua. 



Mechanicochemical {me-kan-ik-o-kem'-ik-al'). Re- 

 lated to mechanics and chemistry. 



Mechanoneural (me-han-o-mt'-ral). A word coined 

 by certain irregular practitioners. 



Mechoacan, Mechoacana, Mechoacanna {ma-kc/- 

 ah-kahn, ma-ko-ah-kahn'-ah). The Spanish name 

 for the roots of Asclepias contrajerva, Ipomcea elon- 

 gala, Choisy, and other plants. M. alba, Ipomcea 

 macrorrhiza, Michx. M. canadensis, poke-root, 

 Phytolacca decandra, L. M. grisea. See M. alba. 

 M. nigra, Ipomcea pu/ga, Heyne. They are used as 

 jalap. 



Mecism (jne f -sizvi) \uf)Koq, length]. A condition 

 marked by abnormal prolongation of one or more parts 

 of the body. 



Meckelian {mek-el'-e-an). Described by or named 

 after I. F. Meckel, a German anatomist (1714- 



1774)- 



Mecon {me'-kori) \jitjkuv\. I. The poppy. 2. Opium. 



Meconarcein. (See Illus. Diet.) Recommended in 

 bronchial affections, and neuralgia. Dose, l /(,-y2. gr. 

 (0.01-0.03 gm. ). 



Medallion (me-dal'-yun) [Fr. medallion, a large 

 medal]. A mass of sun-warmed mud upon which the 

 patient is placed in the " natural mud-baths " of Saki, 

 in the Crimea. 



Medea {me' -de-aJi) [p/dea]. 1. The genital organs. 

 2. Aphrodisiacs. 



Mediastinopericarditis. (See Illus. Diet.) Syn., 

 Indurative mediastinitis. M., Callous, that attended 

 with fibrous thickening of the pericardium. 



Medicago (med-e-kah'-go) \_111edicus, healing; agere, to 

 carry]. A genus of leguminous plants. M. macu- 

 lata, Willd., spotted medick, heart clover, St. Mawe's 

 clover of Europe, a forage species. M. sativa, al- 

 falfa, lucerne, holy hay, a forage plant of Europe and 

 America. The root is used to adulterate belladonna 

 root. 



Medication. (See Illus. Diet.) M., Cataphoric, 

 M., Endermic. See Catuphoresis (Illus. Diet.). 



Medicine. (See Illus. Diet.) M., Anatomic, that 

 system which deals with the anatomic changes in dis- 

 eased organs and their connection with symptoms 

 manifested during life. M., Botanic, a system of 

 healing in which herbal preparations alone are admin- 

 istered. M., Cephalic, a drug for the cure of head- 

 ache. M., Cutaneous, that branch of medicine deal- 

 ing with the prevention and treatment of skin-diseases. 

 M., Dogmatic, School or System of, that attributed 

 to Hippocrates ; it regarded diseases as indivisible 

 units from beginning to termination; i. e., that they 

 consisted of a regular program of characteristic systems, 

 successive periods, and of long course either for better 

 or worse. It was the precursor of modern vital- 

 ism. [Park.] Cf. Methodism, Empiric, Eclectic, 



Pyrrhonian. M., Experimental, that based upon 

 experiments on animals and the observation of patho- 

 logic changes in diseases induced in them and the 

 effect of drugs administered. M., Folk. See AI., 

 Domestic (Illus. Diet.). M., Galenic. See under 

 Galenic (Illus. Diet.). M., Hermetic, the therapeu- 

 tic application of chemicals. M., Indian, a form of 

 quackery said to be founded on knowledge derived 

 from the Amerinds. M., Mental, psychiatry. M., 

 Methodic. See Methodism (Illus. ' Diet.)'. M., 

 Pharmaceutic, an officinal preparation. See Officinal 

 (Illus. Diet.). Cf. Formula, Officinal. M., Phar- 

 macopeal, an official preparation. See Official 

 (Illus. Diet.). Cf. Formula, Official. M., Proprie- 

 tary, a drug the manufacture of which is limited or 

 controlled by an owner, because of a patent, a copy- 

 right, or secrecy as regards its constitution or method 

 of manufacture. M., Psychic, M., Fsychologic. 

 See Psychiatry (Illus. Diet.). M., Secret. See .)/., 

 Proprietary. M., Spagyric, that of the school of 

 Paracelsus, spagirism. M., Vibratory, a method, 

 devised by Vigouroux, Charcot, and Gilles de la 

 Tourette, of treating nervous diseases, paralysis agi- 

 tans, etc., by mechanical shaking or percussion, by 

 means of journeys on railroad or wagon or specially 

 devised apparatus for methodic shaking of the body. 



Medicisterna {ined-e-sis-tur'-nah) \_medius, middle; 

 cisterna, a vessel]. The preferred term for cisterna 

 venze magnse cerebri. 



Medicomechanic {med-ik-o-me-kai^-ih). Medical and 

 mechanic. 



Medicon [med'-ik-on) [fi.i}6iic6v~] , A harmful or noxious 

 drug. 



Medicostatistic {med-ik-o-stat-is' -tik). Relating to 

 medicine as connected with statistics. 



Medicus. (See Illus. Diet.) Medici puri, the 

 physicians proper of the seventeenth century, as 

 distinguished from surgeons and veterinary physi- 

 cians, or from the numerous impostors and quacks 

 (old women, priests, hermits, uroscopists, Paracelsists, 

 Jews, calf-doctors, exorcists, mountebanks, vagrants, 

 magicians, monsters, rat-catchers, jugglers, gypsies, 

 etc.). " They were persons of the profoundest gravity, 

 with fur-trained robes, perukes, canes, and swords 

 when matters were prosperous, who for their lives 

 would do nothing more than write prescriptions in 

 formal style, everything else being considered beneath 

 their dignity." [Park.] 



Medifixed (me' '-ae-fikst) [tncdius, middle ; fingere, to 

 fix]. Attached by the middle. 



Mediflocculus (me-dt>-flo/S-it-lus) [meditts, middle; 

 j?oca/lns~\. The ventral lobe of the paraflocculus in 

 lower mammals. 



Medifrontal (mc-de-fr/m'-tal) \medius, middle ; frons, 

 front]. Relating to the middle of the forehead. 



Mediglycin (mr-dc-glis'-in). A liquid glycerin-soap 

 used as a vehicle. 



Mediodigital [me-dc-o-dij'-it-al). Relating to the 

 median nerve and a finger. 



Mediopalatine {mc-dc-o-pal'-at-en). Relating to the 

 center of the palate. 



Medium. (See Illus. Diet. ) M., Clearing, a medium 

 used in histology for rendering the tissues transparent 

 M., Eisner's, that made by the addition of sterilized 

 solution of potassium iodid (lOvf strength) to each 10 

 c.c. of Holz's potato-gelatin. M., Experimental, a 

 temporary mounting medium used in histologic exam- 

 ination. M., Holz's, a potato gelatin used as a cul- 

 ture-medium. M., Piorkowski's, one composed of 

 100 parts of urine which has undergone ammoniaca! 

 fermentation and to winch 0.5 part of peptone and 3.3, 

 parts of gelatin have been added. 



