CONFLUENT. Blending; running together. CONGENITAL. Dating from birth. CONGESTION. An unnatural fullness or accumulation of blood. CONJUNCTIVA. The membrane covering the eyeball and lining the lid. CONTAGION. The transmitting of disease by contact. CONTINUITY. An uninterrupted connection. CONTRA INDICATION. An indication against certain treatment. CONTUSION. Bruise. CONVALESCENCE. A period of regaining of health. CONVULSIONS. Involuntary contractions of muscular parts. COPULATION. Joining together; coition. COMEDONES. Black spots on the face. CORONAL. Belonging to the crown or top of the head. CORTEX. The peel; bark. CORNEA. The transparent membrane of the front part of the eye. CORYZA. An acute catarrh; the snuffles. COUNTER IRRITATION. Irritation excited in one part of the body to relieve another part. CRANIUM. The skull; the brainpan. CRASSAMENTUM. Clot; the thick part of the blood. CREPITUS. Creaking or grating sound. CRETA. Chalk. CRISIS. The turning point or change of a disease. CUMULATIVE. Increasing by successive additions; augmenting. CUTANEOUS. Belonging to the skin. CUTICLE. The scarf skin; epidermis. CYANOSED. Made blue; blue jaundice. CYSTITIS. Inflammation of the bladder. CYSTOCELE. Descent of the bladder. DECIDUA. Afterbirth membranes. DECOCTION. To prepare by boiling; the results of such boiling. DECOMPOSITION. Separation of a body into its component parts. DEMULCENT. Of a bland, mucilaginous nature. DENTITION. Teething. DEODORANT. Destroying odors. DEPURATING. Cleansing from impurities. DENS. A tooth. DESQUAMATION. A scaling of the cuticle. DETERMINATION. Unusual flow to any part. DEXTER. The right. DIA. In a day. DIAGNOSIS. Determining or distinguishing one disease from another. DIAPHORETIC. A medicine which excites perspiration; sweating. DIASTOLE. The dilatation of the heart on entrance of the blood. DIATHESIS. A peculiar bodily constitution or predisposition. DIETETICS. The branch of medical art that relates to food. DIGESTION. Conversion of food into chyme and chyle. DIGITAL EXAMINATION. Examination by the finger, or by touch. DILATATION. Dilation; expansion; enlarging. DILUENTS. Medicines or fluids that increase the fluidity of the blood. DISINFECTANTS. Substances that destroy septic germs. DISLOCATION. Displacement; out of joint. DISTAL. Farthest from the heart. DIURESIS. An unusual secretion of urine. DIURETICS. Medicines that produce an increased flow of urine. DORSAL. Pertaining to the back. DOUCHE. A column or current of water. DUCT. A tube or canal which conducts a fluid. DUODENUM. The part of the intestines next the stomach. DYSPNŒA. A difficulty of breathing. DYSURIA. Difficult, painful, and burning urination. ECCHYMOSIS. An effusion of blood into the celular structures. ECLAMPSIA. Puerperal convulsions.