TICULATED. Jointed.

ARTICULATIONS. The union of one bone with another. A Joint.

ASCITES. Accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity.

ASPHYXIA. A condition of apparent death owing to the supply of air being
cut off; as in drowning, inhalation of gases, sun-stroke, etc.

ASPIRATOR. An instrument for the evacuation of fluids from the cavities
of the body, as water in abdominal dropsy, the contents of tumors, etc.

ASSIMILATION. Appropriating and transforming into its own substance,
matters foreign to the body.

ASTRINGENTS. Medicines which contract the flesh.

ATONIC, ATONY. Wanting tone.

ATROPHIED. Wasted; lessened in bulk.

ATROPHY. Wasting away; diminution in size.

AUDITORY NERVES. The nerves connecting the brain with the ears and
employed in exercising the sense of hearing.

AUSCULTATION. Diagnosing diseases by listening, either with or without
instruments.

B

BALANITIS. Gonorrhea of the mucous surface of the head of the penis.

BENIGN. Harmless; a term applied to tumors.

BEVERAGE. A liquor for drinking.

BILE. A yellow bitter fluid secreted by the liver. Defined on page 80.

BILIOUS. Disordered in respect to bile. Relating to bile.

BILIOUS TEMPERAMENT, VOLITIVE TEMPERAMENT. See page 173.

BIOLOGY. The science of life.

BISTOURY. A small cutting knife.

BLADDER (URINARY). The organ, situated behind the pubic bone, which
holds the urine until its expulsion. Illus. pages 206 and 207.

BLEBS. Eminences of the skin containing a watery fluid.

BLOODY-FLUX. A disease characterized by frequent, scanty, and _bloody_
stools.

BOIL. An inflamed tumor which comes to a head and discharges matter and
a core. See page 443.

BOLUS. A large pill.

BOUGIE. A long, flexible instrument used for dilating contracted canals
and passages.

BREACH. Some form of hernia of the abdomen. See page 862.

BROAD LIGAMENTS OF THE UTERUS. Folds of the peritoneum which support the
womb and contain the Fallopian tubes and ovaries. Illus. p. 206.

BRONCHEA. Tubes formed by the division of the windpipe. Illus. page 64.

BRONCHOCELE. Thick neck, goitre.

BUBO. An inflammatory tumor in the groin.

BULLA. A bleb or large pimple containing transparent fluid.

C

CACHEXIA. A depraved condition of the system; as from poor food,
syphilis, etc.

CALCAREOUS. Containing lime.

CALCIFICATION. The process of forming of, or converting into, chalk.

CALCULUS, CALCULI. Stones or similar concretions formed