eted or poured out by the mucous membrane, serving to
protect it.
NARCOTIC--A medicine relieving pain and producing sleep.
NEPHRITIS--Inflammation of the kidneys.
NEURALGIA--Pain in nerves.
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NORMAL--In a natural condition.
NUTRITIOUS--A substance which feeds the body.
OBESITY--Excess of fat or flesh.
OBSTETRICS--The science of midwifery.
OCULUS--The eye.
OESOPHAGUS--The tube leading from the throat to the stomach.
OPTIC NERVE--The nerve which enters the back part of the eye.
ORGANIC--Having organs.
OS--Mouth; used as mouth of womb.
OSTALGIA--Pain in the bone.
OTITIS--Inflammation of the ear.
OVUM--An egg.
OXALIC ACID--An acid found in sorrel, very poisonous.
PALATE--The roof of the mouth.
PALLIATIVE--To afford relief only.
PALPITATION--Unnatural beating of the heart.
PARALYSIS--Loss of motion.
PARTURITION--Childbirth.
PATHOLOGICAL--Morbid, diseased.
PELVIS--The bony cavity at lower part of trunk.
PERICARDIUM--Sac containing the heart.
PERINAEUM--The floor of the pelvis, or space between and including the
anus and vulva.
PERITONITIS--Inflammation of lining membrane of bowels.
PLACENTA--After-birth.
PLEURA--Membrane covering the lungs.
PLEURISY--Inflammation of the pleura.
PREGNANCY--Being with child.
PROGNOSIS--Prediction of termination of a disease.
PROLAPSUS--Falling; protrusion.
PROLAPSUS UTERI--Falling of the womb.
PROSTRATION--Without strength.
PRURITIS--A skin trouble causing intense itching.
PUBERTY--Full growth.
PUBES--External part of the organs of generation covered with hair.
PUERPERAL--Belonging to childbirth.
PULMONARY--Pertaining to the lungs.
PULMONITIS--Inflammation of the lungs.
PUS--Unhealthy matter.
PUTRID--Rotten, decomposed.
PYLORUS--Lower opening of the stomach.
RECTUM--The lower portion of the intestines.
REGIMEN--Regulated habits and food.
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RETCHING--An effort to vomit.
RETINA--Inner coat of the eye.
RETROVERSION--Falling backward.
RIGOR--Chilliness, convulsive shuddering.
SACRUM--Bone of the pelvis.
SALIVA--Fluid of the mouth.
SALIVATION--Unnatural flow of saliva.
SANATIVE--Health-producing.
SCIATIC--Pertaining to the hip.
SCROFULA--A constitutional tendency to disease of the glands.
SCROTUM--The sac which encloses the testicles.
SEDATIVE--Quieting, soothing.
SEMEN--Secretion of the testes.
SITZ-BATH--Bath in a sitting posit