=Lo´chi-a.= The vaginal discharge that takes place during the first week or two after childbirth. =Lymph.= A transparent slightly yellow liquid of alkaline reaction which fills the lymphatic vessels. =Mal-aise´.= An uneasiness or indisposition, discomfort or distress. =Mal´po-si´´tion.= Abnormal or anomalous position. =Mam´ma.= The mammary gland; the breast. =Mam´ma-ry.= Pertaining to the Mamma. =Ma-ras´mus.= Progressive wasting and emaciation, especially such a wasting in young children when there is no obvious or ascertainable cause. =Mas-sage´.= The systematic, therapeutic friction, stroking and kneading of the body. =Mas-ti´tis.= Inflammation of the breast. =Me-a´tus.= A passage or opening, as the meatus urinarius. =Me-læ´na ne-o-na-to´rum.= The passage of dark pitchy stools containing blood pigments and blood that has been extravasated into the alimentary canal of the newborn babe. =Mem´brane.= A thin layer of tissue which covers a surface or divides a space or organ. =Men´o-pause.= The period when menstruation normally ceases; the change of life. =Mis-car´riage.= Abortion; premature expulsion of the fœtus; birth of the fœtus before the twenty-eighth week. =Milk leg= (_Phlegmasia Alba Dolens_). A condition developing in one, and rarely, in both, legs, after delivery. It is due to occlusion of the veins of the pelvis and leg by thrombosis or to septic inflammation of the pelvic connective tissue. =Mole.= 1. A fleshy mass or tumor formed in the uterus by the degeneration or abortive development of an ovum. 2. A nevus; also a brownish spot on the skin. =Mons ven´er-is.= A rounded prominence at the symphysis pubis of a woman. =Mor-bid´i-ty.= The condition of being diseased or morbid. =Mor´cel-la´´tion.= Division and piecemeal removal. =Mu´cus.= The viscid watery secretion of the mucous glands. =Mul-tip´ar-a.= A woman who has borne more than one child. =Mum´mi-fi-ca´´tion.= Dry gangrene; also the drying up and shrivelling of the fœtus. =Myd´ri-at´´ic.= A drug that dilates the pupil. =Nau´se-a.= Tendency to vomit; sickness at the stomach. =Ne-cro´sis.= Death of a tissue, especially of a bone. =Ne-phri´tis.= Inflammation of the kidney. =Neu-rot´ic.= 1. Pertaining to or affected with a neurosis. 2. Pertaining to the nerves. =Neu´tra-lize.= To render neutral or ineffective. =Ni´tro-gen.= A colorless gaseous element found free in air. =Nod´u-lar.= 1. Like a nodule or node. 2. Marked with nodules. =Nu´cle-us.= 1. a spheroid body within a cell, forming the essential and vital part. 2. A mass of gray matter in the central nervous system. 3. In chemistry, the central element in the molecule of a compound. =Nu´tri-ent.= Nourishing; affording nutriment. =Nym´phæ.= The labia minora.