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conveying bile both from the 

 liver and the gall-bladder into 

 the duodenum. 



cholepyrrhine, n., kol'^-pir'-rin 

 (Gr. chole, bile; purrhos, red), a 

 yellow substance in the bile. 



cholera, n., hotter -a (Gr. cholera, 

 a water gutter from the roof of a 

 house ; L. cholera, the gall, bile 

 from chole, bile ; rheo, I 

 flow ; or Gr. cholas, the bowels), 

 a disease characterised in its 

 severer forms by rice - water 

 vomiting and purging, of the 

 two kinds, British and Asiatic, 

 the latter is terribly fatal : 

 cholera morbus, morb'iis (L. 

 morbus, sickness, disease), British 

 cholera, a vomiting and purging, 

 rarely fatal to adults : cholera 

 maligna, mal-ia'-no, (L. malignus, 

 malignant), Asiatic cholera. 



cholesteatoma, n., Jc8l'$st'-e-at> 

 omf-d (Gr. chole, bile ; steatoma, 

 tallow, a swelling resembling 

 fat from stear, fat), an encysted 

 tumour consisting almost entirely 

 of cholesterin packed in spherical 

 masses, and surrounded by a 

 somewhat dense capsule : chol- 

 esteatomatous, a., kol-Zstte- at- 

 om' at -us, pert, to or consisting of 

 an encysted fatty tumour. 



cholesterin, n., kSl-est'-er-m (Gr. 

 chole, bile ; stear, fat, steatos, of 

 fat ; or stereos, hard, solid), a 

 white fatty matter found in the 

 blood, brain, and bile, but 

 chiefly in the bile. 



cholicele. n., ktil'-i-sel (Gr. chole, 

 bile ; kele, a tumour, a swelling), 

 the gall-bladder when unnaturally 

 distended with bile. 



cholic, a., k8l<tk (Gr. chole, bile), 

 of or belonging to bile ; an aeid 

 obtained from bile ; also choleic, 

 a., kdl-e'-ik : choloidic, a., kol> 

 o|/G?-&(Gr. eidos, resemblance), de- 

 noting an acid obtained from bile. 



cholochrome, n., kol'-o-krom (Gr. 

 choll, bile ; chroma, colour), the 

 colouring matter of bile ; bili- 

 phsein. 



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Chondodendron, n., ktin'-dd-dZn- 

 dron (unascertained ; Gr. den- 

 dron, a tree), a genus of plants, 

 Ord. Monospermaceae : Cnondo- 

 dendron tomentosum, tom r -%n'> 

 tdz'iim (L. tomentosum, woolly, 

 downy from tomentum, a woolly 

 pubescence), a species found in 

 Peru and Brazil, whose stem and 

 root furnish 'Pareirabrava,' used 

 in chronie inflammation of the 

 bladder. 



chondrin, n., ktin'-drin (Gr. chon- 

 dros, a grain, a clot, cartilage), a 

 substance, a kind of animal gelat- 

 ine, found in cartilages, fungous 

 bone, and the cornea : chondro- 

 glossus, lion'-drd - glos'-sus (Gr. 

 glossa, the tongue), a muscle, 

 being simply one of the three 

 fibres of the hyo-glossus muscle 

 running to the tongue : chon- 

 droma, n., kou'drom-d, a growth 

 of cartilage from bones ; a cartilag- 

 inous tumour : chondrosis, n., 

 kdn-droz'-is, a diseased conditkm 

 or formation of cartilage. 



chondrus crispus, kon'drus krisp'- 

 Us (Gr., chondros, a clot, cartilage; 

 L. crispus, curled, wrinkled), a 

 name frequently given to carra- 

 geen or Irish moss; its system- 

 atic name in America. 



chorda, n., kord'-a (Gr. chorde, 

 L* chorda, a gut, a string, a 

 chord), a cord ; a tendon ; a col- 

 lection of fibres : chorda dorsalis, 

 dor-sdl'is (L. dorsalis, pert, to the 

 back from dorsum, the back), 

 the linear condensed structure 

 which appears in the foetal de- 

 velopment immediately below 

 the cerebro-spinal groove : c. 

 tympani, timf-pdn-l (L. tym- 

 panum, a drum, a tambourine, 

 tympani, of a drum), the chord 

 of the tympanum, a branch of 

 the facial nerve which crosses the 

 tympanum to join the gustatory 

 nerve: chordae tendineae, plurals, 

 k#rd'-e tgnd-m'-Z-e (L. Undo, a 

 tendon, tendmis, of a tendon, 

 tendineus, belonging to a tendon 



