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Tabes. Wasting; atrophy. 

 T^NiA. Tape-worm. 

 Tegument. Covering ; skin. 

 Tenesmus. Straining; bearing down. 

 Tentative. Experimental. 



Tetanus. A disease characterized by muscular rigidity. 

 Therapeutic. Sanative; medicinal; restorative; promo- 

 tive of the cure of disease. 

 Tinea. Porrigo ; a disease of the skin. Tinea capitis^ con- 

 tagious ring-worm. 

 Tonic. In physiology and pathology, as applied to the 

 muscles, tonic contraction means fixed rigidity. In 

 77iateria medica and therapeutics, a tonic is a strengthen- 

 ing medicine or agency. 

 Tormina. Griping pains. 

 ToRULA. A minute vegetation, found (Torula cerevisiae) in 



fermenting liquids. 

 Toxemia. Blood-poisoning. 



Toxic. Poisonous 



Tracheitis. Inflammation of the trachea. 



Transudation. Passage of fluid through the walls of vessels. 



Traumatic. Resulting from a wound or injury. 



Trichoma. Plica polonica. 



Trismus. Lock-jaw. 



Tuberculization. The deposition of tubercle. 



Tuberculosis. The development of the tubercular diathesis. 



Tumefaction. Swelling. 



Turgescence, Distension with fluid, usually with blood. 



Tussive. Connected with cough. 



Tympanites. Distention of the abdomen with air. 



Typical. Representative ; characteristic. 



Typhoid. Resembling, and yet not identical with, typhus. 



Typhus. A form of low continued fever. 



