ADJUVANTS. Medicines which assist the action of other medicines. ÆTIOLOGY. The science of causes. ALA. A wing. ALA NASI. The cartilaginous sides of the nose which move during difficult breathing. ALBUMINOID. Resembling albumen. ALBUMINARIA. The presence of albumen in the urine. A kidney disease. ALKALIES. Substances that have the power of forming salts with acids. ALIMENTARY CANAL. The passage from the mouth to the anus. ALTERATIVE. A medicine that has power to gradually change or improve a disease. ALVEOLI. The bony sockets of the teeth. AMENORRHŒA. A suspension or absence of the menses. ANAEMIA. A lack of red particles in the blood; bloodlessness. ANAL. Relating to the anus or rectum. ANASARCA. Dropsy of the celular tissue. ANESTHETIC. Capable of producing insensibility. ANGINA. An inflammation of the throat. ANTACID. A remedy against acidity. ANTERIOR. In front, or placed before. ANTHELMINTIC. A remedy against worms, destroying or expelling them. ANTIFLEXION. Bending forwards. ANTILITHICS. Substances that prevent the formation of calculi. ANTIPHLOGISTICS. Such medicines as reduce an inflammatory habit. ANTISEPTIC. Preventing or resisting putrefaction. ANTISPASMODICS. Such medicines as reduce spasms. ANTI-VERSION. Turning forwards. ANUS. The opening at the inferior extremity of the rectum. AORTA. The great artery of the body, going from the heart. APERIENT, Opening. Mildly purgative. APHONIA. Loss of voice. APTHÆ. Small white ulcers of the mucous membrane. APOPHYSIS. A bony process; a prominence on the bone. AQUA. Water. AREOLA. A circle around the nipple. AREOLAR TISSUE. The tissue that connects various compound parts of the body. ARTICULATION. The joining or union of bones. ARTERY. A vessel carrying blood from the heart. ASCARIDES. Pin worms. ASCITES. Abdominal dropsy. ASPHYXIA. Apparent death; suspended animation. ASSIMULATION. The process by which nutriment is converted into the substance of the body. ASTHENIA. Want of strength; exhaustion; debility. ASTRINGENT. Having the power of contracting organic textures. ATROPHY. Wasting. AUSCULTATION. Listening, observing the sounds in the thorax, &c. AUTOPSY. A post mortem examination. AXILLA. The arm pit. AXIS. A line passing through the center of a body. BACTERIA. A kind of microscopic organism. BALLOTTEMENT. The falling back of the displaced fœtus. BASIS. That part upon which anything rests. BENIGN. Of a mild character. BILE. The secretion of the liver; the gall. BIOLOGY. The science of life in general. BISTOURY. A small narrow bladed knife used in surgery. BLASTODERM. The membrane enclosing the yolk of the ovum. BOUGIES. An instrument for dilating mucous canals. BRONCHI. The branches from the windpipe leading to the lungs. BULIENTIS. Boiling. BULIMIA. Abnormal appetite.