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SYMPHOROL 



Sursumduction. (See Illus. Diet.) 2. See Supra- 

 vergence. 3 A movement of either eye alone up- 

 ward. (Duane.) S., Right, the absolute power 

 that the right eye has to rotate upward. (Duane.) 



Sursumvergence (sur-sum-vur' '-jenz) [sursum, upon ; 

 vergere, to bend]. The turning of the eyes upward, 

 supravergence. 



Sursumversion (sur-sumvur / -shun) [sursum, upon ; 

 vertere, to turn]. The movement of both eyes up. 

 (Duane.) 



Surumpe. The name in the Andes for hyperesthesia 

 of the retina observed at great altitudes. 



Survivorship ( *ur-vi? -vor-ship) [super, over ; vivere, to 

 live]. In medical jurisprudence the probability of a 

 certain individual having survived others when all 

 concerned were in th« same accident and ail were 

 killed. 



Susceptivity (sus-sep-th/-it-e) \suscipere,Xo undertake]. 

 The state or quality of being susceptible. 



Suscitability {sus-si-ta-bil'-ite\ [suscitare, to lift up]. 

 The quality of being easily roused or excited. 



Suscitation (sus-si-ta'-shun). The act of exciting. 



Susotoxin \su-so-toks / -in). See under Ptomains, 

 Table of (Iilus. Diet.). 



Suspensory. (See Illus. Diet) 2. A device for sus- 

 pending a part. 



Sustoxin. See S'tsotoxin. 



Suture. (See Illus. Diet.) S., Arcuate. See S., 

 Basilar (Illus Diet.). S., Billroth's, the button- 

 hole stitch. S., Biparietal. See S., Sagittal (Iilus. 

 Diet. ;. S., Blatin's, a modification of Geiy's in 

 which one needle and two threads of different colors 

 are used. S., Chainstitch, the sewing-machine 

 stitch. S., Cross, the application of two single 

 stitches to a T- wound. S., Ford's Friction-knot, a 

 square knot is tied for the first stitch, then the needle 

 is passed as for a single-knot stitch, turning the thread 

 twice around the needle instead of once. The last 

 stitch is a square knot. S., Ford's Single-knot, 

 the needle is passed through the divided tissues and, 

 without cutting the thread, a square knot is tied. For 

 the second stitch the thread is held or thrown so that 

 the needle will emerge in a loop, and when it is drawn 

 through a single knot will be formed. 3., Ford's 

 Square-knot, the same steps are taken as for the 

 single-knot, and for the second stitch pass the needle 

 under the thread connecting the knots in the opposite 

 direction from which the needle was inserted into the 

 tissues. S., The Four Masters', a suture of the in- 

 testine used in the thirteenth century in which the 

 trachea of a goose was used as a means of support 

 and the ends of the severed Intestine brought into posi- 

 tion on it and sutured with four interrupted stitches 

 which did not include the trachea. S., Grad's 

 Method of, in suturing a wound it consists in placing 



. in each turn of the knot a releasing pull thread. S., 

 Granny-knot, a single-knot stitch is formed and the 

 needle is passed in the opposite direction from which 

 it was inserted under the thread in forming a square 

 knot. S., Grieg Smith's, a modification of Appo- 

 lito's method which removes the necessity of the inser- 

 tion of a foreign substance in the lumen of the gut. 

 S., Imperfect, of Weber, S., Longitudinal Im- 

 perfect. See S., Weber's. S., Kalt. See under 

 Stitch. S., Larry's, a double glover's stitch, with 

 threads of a different color. S., Lewis', a modifica- 

 tion of the right-angle stitch. S., Marcey's, the 

 cobbler-stitch used for hernia. S., Mitchell-Hun- 

 ner's, the application of a quilted stitch to the mesen- 

 teric border of the gut. S., Parallel, a continuous 

 subcuticular suture. S., Rabdoid. See S., Sagittal 

 (Illus. Diet.). S., Sclerocorneal, of Kalt. See 



Stitch, Sclerocorneal. S., Sphenopalatine, a cranial 

 suture between the sphenoid and palatine bones. S.. 

 Du Verger's, a modification of the four masters' ; he 

 used only two stitches, both of which included the 

 foreign support. S., Watson's, a glover's stitch 

 uniting the gut over a cannula of fish glue. S., 

 ■Weber's, a fine groove or suture on the inner surface 

 of the nasal process of the superior maxilla. S., 

 Wormian, Anterior, the upper part of the lambdoid 

 suture. 



Sweat. (See Illus. Diet) S., English. See Sweat- 

 ing-sickness. S., Picardy. See Finer, Miliary 

 (Illus. Diet.). 



Sweating-sickness. An infective, febrile epidemic 

 disorder, characterized by a rapid course and profuse 

 perspiration. It was prevalent in England at the end 

 of the fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth century. 

 Payne and others regard it as closely related to mili- 

 ary fever. Syn., English sweat, Sudor Anglicus, 

 Picardy sweat ; Kr., suette miliaire ; Ger. , Schweiss- 

 freisel. 



Swelling. (See Illus. Diet.) S., Sommerring's 

 Crystalline, an annular swelling formed in the lower 

 part of the capsule, behind the iris, after extraction 

 of the crystalline lens. 



Syaladenitis. See Sialadenitis (Illus. Diet.). 



Sycoceryl (si-ko-set^-il). Applied to an alcohol the 

 acetate of which is a constituent of sycoretin. S. 

 Hydrate, sycoceryl aldebyd. 



Sycoretin (st-ho-re'-tin) [ovkov, fig; Mjpoc, wax]. A 

 resin found in 1855 in Ficus rubiginosa, Desf., of 

 New South Wales. 



Sycose (si'-koz). Saccharin. 



Sycosiform (si-ko f -se-form'). Resembling sycosis. 



Syderant. See Siderant. 



Sylviduct (sil'-ve-dukt). The aqueduct of Sylvius. 



Symbiote (sim'-bi-ot). See Symbion (Illus. Diet.). 



Symblepharopterygium {sim-bUf-ar-o-Ur-if-eutri). 

 A variety of symblepharon in which a cicatricial band 

 resembling a pterygium connects the lid and the eve- 

 ball. 



Symmer's Theory of Electricity. See under Theory. 



Sympathectomy, Sympathicectomy (sim-path-ek* '- 

 to-me, sim-path-is-eh'-to-me). Excision of part of the 

 sympathetic nerve. 



Sympatheticism (sim-path-et '* '-is-itm). See Sympa- 

 thism. 



Sympatheticoparalytic (sim-patA-ef-ik-o-par-al-it'-iA). 

 Due to paralysis of the sympathetic nerve. 



Sympatheticotonic (sim-path-et-ik-o-ton'-iA). Applied 

 to migraine caused by tonic contraction of the arteries 

 due to overaction of the sympathetic. 



Sympathiconeuritis {sim-path-iAo-nu-ri'-tis). See 

 Sympatheoneuritis (Illus. Diet.). 



Sympathicotripsy (sim-pafh-iA-o-trif/se) [avuiraOeta, 

 sympathy; TpifktP, to crush]. In treatment of mental 

 diseases, crushing of the superior cervical ganglion. 



Sympathism (sim'-path-izm). Susceptibility to hyp- 

 notic suggestion. 



Sympathist (sim'-patA-isl). One who is susceptible to 

 hypnotic suggestion. 



Symperitoneal (sim-per-it-one'-al) [iti-v, together; 

 peritoneum']. Connecting artificially two parts of the 

 peritoneum. 



Sympexia (sim-peAs'-e-aA). See Sympexis (Illus. 

 Diet.). 



Symphiocephalus {sim-fi-o-sef '-al-us) [aiv, together; 

 oietv, to grow; Ktoa/.Tj, the head]. A twin monster 

 with the union in the head. 



Symphorol (sim / -forol) [ai-v, together ; dopd, that which 

 is Drought forth]. A generic name for the caffein sul- 

 fates or sulfocaffeinates. Symphorol L., lithium and 



