A pentaglot dictionary of the terms employed in anatomy, physiology, pathology [&c.].

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...aromatized. Garum derives its name,--ita vocatum a Garo pisce,--from a small fish y't'f,--described by Dioscorides and Pliny; and principally used in the preparation of this powerfully exciting condiment. See DioscoriiUe Pharmacorum Simpl., Liber Sec, Cap. xxxiv. Gaster, S. in.: a term borrowed from the Greek, yarrri; and employed, in Anatomy, to designate either the belli/ in general,--venter, m. L.,--bauch, m. G.,--or the stomach, ventriculus,--magen,--see Estomac,--in particular. Gasti.rai.gie, Ou Gastraloie, S. f., gasteralgia, £ (yarrri,--ti/.ytt, painj, dolor ventriculi seu rentris, L.,--magenschmerz, oder bauchschinerz, m. G.,--pain in the stonuieh or bowels. (iAsti.iiAngiempiirAx.if:, s. f.,--gasterangiemphraxis, f. (same,--£%v, to strangulate,--i/cp;a.'f, obstruction), L.: a term, in Pathology, proposed as designative of obstruction of the pylorus. Krails, however, substitutes a spurious Greek compound of ayyiio, a vessel, for the verb xi,--see Medicinisches Lcjican, p. 3'il; and, consequently, represents the term as signifying an obstructed or congestive state of the bloodvessels of the stomach,--der mageninfarct, die uberfulli:ng der blutgefwise des tnagens. Gasteroi-odes, S. m. pi.,--Gas/crop, ia (yxerhf, the belly, «»?, a foot), L,--die Gasteropoden, G.: the designation, in Zoology, of an Order of the Mollusca; comprehending those animals which creep upon the belly, and have, ordinarily, like the Helices and Lymnea, part of the bodv enclosed in an univalve shell, into which the whole may be retracted in time of necessity or danger. Gasth-eum, S. m. (same), F.,--n. L.,--bauchseite, f. G.: in Zoology, according to Illiger, the inferior surface of the body of the Mammifira, from larynx to anus. Gastricole, adj.,--gastricolus (g...