| acetose | Resembling or (in early use) containing vinegar; sour or acidic like vinegar. Also fig. or in figurative context. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| achafe | trans. To heat, warm; to inflame (a part of the body). Also fig.: to kindle (wrath, etc.); to excite, arouse. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| aching | The action of ache v.; continuous dull pain; an instance of this, a painful throbbing. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| acuity | The capacity of a substance to cut, pierce, or corrode; acidity, caustic quality. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| additament | A thing that has been added or added on to something else; an addition. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| adjutory | Anat. The bone of the upper arm, the humerus; the upper arm itself (as contrasted… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| adust | Med. Designating any of the humours of the body when considered to be abnormally… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| aegritude | Sickness; an instance of sickness. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| affeeble | trans. To weaken, enfeeble. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| affodill | The plant ramsons, Allium ursinum. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| agaric | Originally: the bracket fungus Fomitopsis officinalis, which grows mainly on larch… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| aggregative | Med. and Surg. Promoting the union of the edges of a wound; = agglutinative adj. 1. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| algebra | Surgical treatment of a fractured or dislocated bone. Also (as a count noun): a fracture or dislocation. Now hist. and rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| alopecy | = alopecia n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| aludel | A pear-shaped earthenware or glass pot, open at both ends to enable a series to be… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| animal | Physiol. and Med. Designating the functions of the brain and nerves, esp. sensation… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| cellule | An (imaginary) cavity or compartment in the brain: = cell n. 7a. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| comment | An expository treatise, an exposition; a commentary. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| compound | artificially. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| compression | The action of compressing; pressing together, squeezing; forcing into a smaller compass; condensation by pressure. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| confrication | Rubbing together, friction. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| congather | To gather together, collect. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| congregate | trans. To collect or gather (things) together into a mass or crowd. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| congruely | Congruously, fittingly; with congruity. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| conjunct | the immediate or direct cause. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| consimile | Like or similar throughout, homogeneous. Applied in old Physiology to the animal tissues, etc. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| consolidation | Surg. The uniting of the fractures of a broken bone, of the lips of a wound, etc. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| consolidative | Serving to consolidate; tending to heal fractures, wounds, etc. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| consoude | trans. To heal, join together (wounds, fractures); = consolidate v. 4. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| consouder | That which consolidates; a ‘consolidative’ medicine. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| constriction | Compressing or drawing together as by an encircling pressure; the condition of being… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| contusion | The action of bruising, or condition of being bruised. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| cordial | Of or belonging to the heart. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| cordous | Affecting the ‘cords’ or sinews. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| corneled | = cornered adj. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| corrigiole | The Knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| corrode | Said of diseases, etc. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| corrosion | Destruction of organic tissue by disease, etc. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| costive | Suffering from hardness and retention of the fæces; ‘bound’ or confined in the bowels; constipated. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| coxe | = coxa n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| Crassula | A name applied by the mediæval herbalists to some species of Sedum, esp. Orpine; but… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| crepature | A wound, crack, or chap in the skin. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| crustous | Of the nature of a crust or scab; crusty. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| crusty | Crusted (of wine). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| deading | The action of the verb dead v.; deadening. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dedignation | Disdain, scorn, contempt. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| defence | trans. To provide with a defence or defences; to defend, protect, guard. (lit. and fig.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| defensive | Having the quality of defending against attack or injury; serving for defence; protective. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| demigrane | = hemicrania n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| desiccative | A desiccative agent: a desiccant. ? Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| despume | trans. To skim; to clear of froth or scum. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| deveyn | In phrase in deveyn(e, in vain. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| devising | The action of the verb devise v.; contriving, planning, invention, etc. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| diamoron | A preparation of syrup and mulberry juice, used as a gargle for a sore throat. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dieting | concr. Food (obs.). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| different | Having characters or qualities which diverge from one another; having unlike… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| difficul | = difficult adj. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| difficult | of the object of an action. Const. inf. (now usually act., less freq. pass.), or with of… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| disjunction | The action of disjoining or condition of being disjoined; separation, disconnexion, disunion. (The opposite of conjunction n. 1) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| disjuncture | The fact of disjoining or condition of being disjoined; disjunction; separation, breach. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dislocate | Dislocated. (Chiefly as pa. pple.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dislocation | spec. Displacement of a bone from its natural position in the joint; luxation.… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dissolutive | Having the property of dissolving; producing dissolution or disintegration; dissolvent. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| distemper | trans. To treat with water or some other liquid; to mix with a liquid, so as to dissolve… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| distend | trans. To stretch asunder, stretch out, extend; to spread out at full length or breadth. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| diuretic | Having the quality of exciting (excessive) excretion or discharge of urine. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| droppingly | In a dropping manner; drop by drop; one by one. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dura mater | The dense, tough, outermost membranous envelope of the brain and spinal cord. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dyscrasia | = dyscrasy n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| dyscrasy | A bad or disordered condition of the body (originally supposed to arise… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| earthworm | Any of various oligochaete worms which burrow in the soil; esp. one of the suborder Lumbricina… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| euphorbine | Some product of the euphorbia. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| Euphorbium | A gum resin obtained from certain succulent species of Euphorbia. It is an… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| evacuation | Med. The action or process of depleting (the body or any organ), or of clearing out… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| evacue | In senses of evacuate v. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| exhale | intr. Of vapour, perfume, †heat, etc.: To pass off into the air. Of a liquid, etc.: To pass… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| exiture | A running abscess. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| expressive | Tending to press out or expel. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| expulsion | In physiological use. Formerly spec.; now contextual. virtue of expulsion = expulsive virtue at expulsive adj. 1. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| exsiccative | Tending to make dry or to produce dryness, having the power or quality of drying up. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| extension | The action of straining the capacity of a vessel, etc.; distension, swelling. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| extremity | The extreme or terminal point or portion of anything; the very end. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| faldella | (See quot. 1753.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| feeling | Capable of sensation; sensitive. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| festry | Full of festers, festering. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ficus | See quots. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| firstmost | First, foremost. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fissure | Pathol. A narrow solution of continuity produced by injury or by ulceration; also… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| flake | Tepid. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| flash | Lukewarm, tepid. Also flash-hot. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| flate | intr. To feel nausea. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| focile | One of the bones of the fore-arm or of the leg. greater focile, the ulna or tibia. lesser (or over) focile, the radius or fibula. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| folding | The point or region of folding; the bend or depression of a limb; a sinuous part or curve… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fomentation | Med. The application to the surface of the body either of flannels, etc. soaked in… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| foreside | The fore part; the front; also, the upper side (of anything). Now rare exc. techn. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| formica | A kind of abscess, ulcer, or excrescence, occurring esp. in a hawk's bill or a dog's ears. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| freckle | A yellowish or light-brown spot in the skin, said to be produced by exposure to the sun and wind. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fretting | | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fume | trans. To apply smoke or fumes to; to fumigate. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| fumose | Full of fumes, giving off fumes, vaporous, flatulent. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| funis | The umbilical cord. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| gibbosity | A swelling; a protuberance. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| gibbous | Convex, rounded, protuberant. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| glandule | A gland. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| glandulous | Of or pertaining to a gland or glandule; having the nature of a gland; containing, or consisting of, glands. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| glutinosity | The quality or condition of being glutinous. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| groin | The fold or depression on either side of the body between the abdomen and the upper… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| guides | The jugular vein. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| gula | The gullet, or that which answers to it in the lower animals. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| gummosity | concr. A gummy substance, deposit, concretion, etc. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| gurgulation | Rumbling in the bowels. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| habitude | Manner of being or existing; constitution; inherent or essential character; mental… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| handly | Used by the hands; manual; mechanical. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hand-working | Working with the hands; manual labour or operation. Also attrib. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hermaphrodite | A person or animal (really or apparently) having both male and female sex organs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hip-bone | The bone of the hip; i.e. either the ilium, or the ischium, or the os innominatum as a… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hollowy | Deriv. or by-forms of hollow adj. adv. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| humidity | pl. The humours and juices of animals and plants. (Cf. humour n. 2.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hydromel | A liquor consisting of a mixture of honey and water, which when fermented is called vinous hydromel or mead. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrosacre | A syrup made of sugar and water. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| impostume | A purulent swelling or cyst in any part of the body; an abscess. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| impostume | intr. To gather into an impostume or abscess; = impostumate v. 2. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| impostumed | = impostumated adj. lit. and fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| inanition | The action or process of emptying; the condition of being empty; spec. the… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| incarn | trans. To cover with flesh, cause flesh to grow upon or in, heal over (a wound or sore). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| incarnative | Having the quality of incarning; promoting the growth of flesh in a wound or sore. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| incision | The effect of cutting into something; a division produced by cutting; a cut, gash. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| innatural | Not natural; contrary to nature; unnatural. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| inviscate | trans. To render viscid or sticky; to mix or cover with a sticky substance. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ireos | The root of this, used in pharmacy; orris-root. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| J | As a Roman numeral j was formerly used as a final form of i in j, ij, vj, and the like… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| jujube | An edible berry-like drupe, the fruit of various species of Zizyphus (family Rhamnaceæ). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| julep | A sweet drink prepared in different ways; often, simply a liquid sweetened with syrup… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| juvament | Help, aid, assistance. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lacert | A muscle. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lacertose | Consisting of muscles; having large muscles; muscular. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| laurine | (Oil) of laurel. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lent | Slow, sluggish; said esp. of a fever, a fire. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lentigo | A freckle or pimple; now usually collect. for an affection of the skin (see quot. 1877). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| letter | A person who lets blood; = bloodletter n. Also in extended use: a shedder of blood. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| lifey | Characteristic of or belonging to life; living. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ligament | Anat. One of the numerous short bands of tough, flexible, fibrous tissue which bind the… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ligature | Anything used in binding or tying; a band, bandage, tie. Chiefly spec. in Surg., a thread… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| limature | Metal filings. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lingual | Tongue-shaped (see quot.). Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lint | A soft material for dressing wounds (formerly also to burn for tinder), prepared by… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| liquidy | Of a liquid nature. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| longanon | The rectum. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| looseness | Freedom from restraint, attachment, rigid connection, tightness, or density. lit., transf., and fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lotion | Pharmacol. A liquid preparation used externally for healing wounds, relieving pain, beautifying the skin, etc. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lumbricus | The round-worm which infests the intestines, Ascaris lumbricoides (frequently referred to Lumbricus). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| lute | Tenacious clay or cement composed of various ingredients, and used to stop an orifice… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| macula | Med. A spot or scar in the eye. Later: spec. (more fully macula alba) a corneal opacity, esp.… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| malax | To make or soften (a plaster, poultice, etc.), usually by kneading or by moistening with oil or liquid. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| maris | The womb. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| matrice | The womb; = matrix n. 1. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mature | trans. = maturate v. 1a. In later use also: to loosen (bronchial mucus). Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| melancholiant | Of blood: containing black bile. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| melioration | Improvement, amelioration; the action or process of improving or making better; the… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mel roset | A medicinal preparation containing honey and essence of roses. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mendose | False; esp. designating the false ribs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| menstrue | In sing. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| meri | The oesophagus. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mesaraic | = mesenteric adj. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| middlely | Moderately. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mirach | The abdominal wall. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| misordaining | Incorrect or improper regulation. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| misordinance | Misconduct. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mollificative | orig. Med. Now literary. That makes soft or supple. Cf. mollitive adj. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| moralis | A mulberry-shaped haemorrhoid. Usu. in pl. Cf. more n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| morel | Any of several kinds of nightshade with black or deep purple berries; esp.… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| morphew | Any of various skin diseases characterized by localized or generalized discoloration of… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| motive | Having the quality of causing or initiating movement; producing, or used in the… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mucilage | In sing. and †pl. A viscid preparation made from the seeds, roots, or other parts… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mummy | A substance prepared for medicinal use from mummified (usually human) flesh (see sense 5a). Now hist. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mundificative | Having the power to cleanse (esp. an ulcer, wound, etc.). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| myrtle | The edible fruit of a myrtle (see sense 2a); a myrtle berry. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| myrtle berry | The fruit of a myrtle, esp. Myrtus communis. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| nardine | The ointment nard. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| natural | In pl. The inborn mental or physical endowments of a person; natural gifts or powers of… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| nerf | A sinew or tendon. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| nerve | Any of the whitish, cord-like structures that connect the central nervous system (brain… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| nervose | Affecting the tendons or sinews. Obs. rare. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| nervous | Affecting the sinews or tendons. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| nitre | Originally: †natron, native sodium carbonate (obs.). In later use: sodium or… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| nodus | Pathol. and Med. A node (node n. 2a); a nodule. Now rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| not-againstanding | = nought-againstanding prep. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| nourishant | Nourishing, nutritious. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| obtund | trans. To blunt, deaden, dull the sensation of; to deprive of sharpness or vigour. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| obviation | The action of preventing or avoiding something by anticipatory measures; prevention. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| oedema | Originally: †a fluid-filled tumour or swelling (obs.). Now: the localized… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| oesophage | = oesophagus n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| official | Performing some office or service; subservient to something else or to… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ointuose | Oily, greasy; = unctuous adj. 1a. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ointure | Ointment; grease. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| opopanax | A fetid gum resin obtained from the root of Opopanax chironium (a yellow-flowered plant… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| oppilation | The action of obstructing or stopping something up; the condition of being obstructed or blocked; an obstruction. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| organic | Anat. Designating the jugular vein. Obs. rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| os | A bone. Chiefly in names of particular bones with (usually… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| os pectinis | The pubic bone (os pubis). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| outcept | Except, apart from, excluding; = except adj. 1. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| overbound | intr. = overabound v. 1. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| pale | trans. To palliate; to alleviate the symptoms of (a disease or patient). | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| panaritium | Infection or inflammation of the tissues near a fingernail; an instance of this, a whitlow; = paronychia n. 1. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pannicle | Anat. and Zool. Originally: a membrane or thin sheet or layer of tissue in a human or… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pannicular | Of the nature of a membrane; membranous. Now hist. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pannus | An abnormal layer of granulation tissue or vascular fibrous tissue covering the cornea… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| paxillary | Designating the sphenoid bone. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| peach | The tree Prunus persica (family Rosaceae), having lanceolate leaves and pink flowers… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pellicule | = pellicle n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| penide | A piece or stick of boiled sugar resembling barley sugar, formerly used esp. as a remedy… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| peripleumonia | = peripneumonia n. Cf. peripleumony n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| persicary | A plant of the genus Persicaria (see persicaria n.), esp. spotted persicaria, P. maculosa. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pessary | In early use: a suppository. Later: spec. a vaginal suppository containing an antibiotic, spermicide, etc. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| phlebotomy | The action or practice of extracting blood from a vein for therapeutic or… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| piercing | That pierces, penetrates, or perforates as, or in the manner of, a sharp-pointed object; sharp, cutting. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pill | Originally: a small compressed ball or globular mass containing a medicinal substance… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pineate | Of the shape of a pine cone; conical. Cf. pineal adj. 1. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| plantein | = plant n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| plication | The action or an act of folding; the state or condition of being folded or having plicae. Now chiefly Biol. and Geol. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| plumaciol | A pledget or small pad used in surgery. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| polyp | Med. Originally: a fleshy growth within the nasal passages. In later use: a mass arising… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ponderous | Having great weight; heavy, weighty, massive; clumsy, unwieldy, or slow-moving due to… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pore | = callus n. 2. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| porose | Having or full of pores; porous; (Entomol.) covered with minute spots or pits resembling pores. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| portulac | Purslane, Portulaca oleracea; (also) a purslane plant. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| portulaca | Originally: garden purslane, Portulaca oleracea (family Portulacaceæ). Later more widely… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| poultice | A moist, usually heated mass of a substance with a soft, pasty consistency, applied to… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| powdering | The action of seasoning or preserving food with salt or spice. Sometimes with down, up.… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| preparative | Med. A medicinal preparation or other form of treatment administered before further… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| preputium | Chiefly Anat. = prepuce n. 1. Now rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| profound | Of an ulcer or sore: to penetrate into the flesh. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| prognostic | trans. To predict, foretell, presage (an event or outcome), to prognosticate (something); (Med.… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| prognostication | A prognosis (now rare); the action or an act of making a prognosis. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| propriety | Particular or individual character, nature, or disposition; individuality… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| proud flesh | Abundant or excessive granulation tissue associated with a healing wound. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pruritus | Itching of the skin or other surface. Also fig.: a strong desire or craving. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pulp | The soft fleshy internal part of a fruit, vegetable, etc.; the soft pith in the interior of a stem. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| punctal | Of a cauterizing instrument: having a sharp point. Of a cauterization: producing… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| punctual | Surg. Of a cauterization: producing or consisting of small pricks or punctures. Of a… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| puncture | The action of penetrating or perforating something with a sharply pointed object… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pupilla | = pupil n. 1a. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| purslane | A low-growing succulent plant, Portulaca oleracea (family Portulacaceae), with small… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| push | A pustule, a pimple, a boil. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| putrede | Rottenness; putridity; (also) pus. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| putrefaction | The state of being putrid; rottenness; the process or action of putrefying or rotting; spec.… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| putrefy | To make putrid; to cause to decompose with a foul smell. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pyse | The chest. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| pyxis | Anat. The acetabulum of the pelvis. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| quicklime | Lime (lime n. 3a) which has not yet been slaked; calcium oxide, CaO. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| quitter | intr. and trans. in pass. To become purulent; to fill with pus. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rare | Originally: (of an organ or tissue, soil, or other substance) having the constituent… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rascette | Anat. The wrist (carpus). Also: the ankle (tarsus) (rare). Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rasure | A particle removed by scraping cloth, wood, etc.; (in pl.) shavings collectively. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| razing | The action of raze v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| reaching | Capable of being stretched. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| realgar | An arsenic-containing mineral that occurs as soft red masses and was formerly used as a… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rectification | The action of setting right, restoring to a normal or proper condition, or freeing… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rectify | To restore (an organ or part of the body) to a normal or healthy condition. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| regender | trans. To recreate; to make again. In early use spec.: to cause tissue or skin to regrow. Cf. re-engender v. Also occas. intr. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| regener | trans. = regender v. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| regenerative | Med. Promoting the formation of new tissue. Cf. sense B. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| regimen | The regulation of aspects of life (diet, exercise, etc.) which have an influence on… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| repairment | Med. A callus formed at the site of fracture of a bone; a repair of a fracture. Obs. rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| resolutive | Serving to resolve morbid humours or material, or (in later use) inflammation. Cf. resolving adj. 1. Now hist. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| resolver | Chiefly Med. A resolvent medicine or agent; = resolvent n. 1. Now rare. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| retention | The fact or action of retaining within the body a substance (esp. urine or, in… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| reversive | Anat. Of a nerve: recurrent; spec. designating the recurrent laryngeal nerve. Now hist. and rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rigor | Originally: †the sensation of numbness, tingling, or prickling; (also) stiffness; an… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rimel | A crack in the skull. Cf. rima n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rip | trans. To tear, pull, or cut (something) away from something else in a forceful or… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| riper | Something that causes ripening or becomes ripe; a ripener. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| rostral | Anat. Designating either of two beak-like bony processes, the coracoid process of the… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rotship | Rottenness; putridity. Cf. rotness n. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rotula | Anat. The patella (kneecap). Now rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rundles | Rennet. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| ruptory | A caustic medicinal preparation; the use of such a preparation, esp. to open and drain… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sagittel(le | Some plant. Also attrib. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| salvatella | Old name for a vein on the back of the hand near its ulnar edge; blood-letting from this… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sarcocol(l | = sarcocolla n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scabies | A general term for skin-diseases characterized by scabby or scaly eruption. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scabious | Any of the herbaceous plants of the genus Scabiosa (N.O. Dipsaceae), formerly believed… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scia | The hip. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scissure | Anat., etc. A natural cleft or opening in an organ or part. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scotomia | Originally: = scotomy n. In later use also: = scotoma n. 2. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| scotomy | Originally: a condition characterized by the appearance of dark spots or a mist before… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| scrofula | A constitutional disease characterized mainly by chronic enlargement and degeneration… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| scrophulary | Anglicized form of scrophularia n. (cf. French scrofulaire). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| searce | trans. To sift through a searce. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sebesten | The plum-like fruit of a tree of the genus Cordia (formerly Sebestena); a preparation of… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sene | = senna n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| serapin(e | = sagapenum n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| serpigo | A general term (cf. herpes n.) for creeping or spreading skin diseases; spec. ringworm. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| seton | A thread, piece of tape, or the like, drawn through a fold of skin so as to maintain an… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| shrugging | Shivering. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sibilus | A hissing in the ears. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sigillative | An application serving to close a wound. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| skin | trans. To circumcise. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| softening | Causing to become soft, tender, etc. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spasm | Sudden and violent muscular contraction of a convulsive or painful character. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spasmus | = spasm n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| sperge | ? Asparagus. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spica | oil of spica, oil of spike. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spina | The backbone. Now only Pathol. in spina bifida, a congenital malformation of… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spine | The spinal or vertebral column in man and vertebrates; the backbone. Also spine of the back; now dial. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| splet-bone | App. = spauld-bone. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spondyl(e | One or other of the joints of the spine; a vertebra. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spongious | Of the nature of a sponge; spongy. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| spumous | Of the nature of, having the appearance of, froth or foam. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| squill | A bulb or root of the sea-onion or other related plant (see 2). Chiefly in pl. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| straining | The action of stretching, extending, drawing tight, wrenching, etc.; the fact of being stretched, wrenched, etc. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| stricture | Pathol. A morbid narrowing of a canal, duct, or passage, esp. of the urethra, œsophagus, or intestine. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| stupe | A piece of tow, flannel, or other soft substance, wrung out of hot liquor and medicated, for fomenting a wound or ailing part. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| styptic | A substance having the power of contracting organic tissue. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sublime | trans. Chem. To subject (a substance) to the action of heat in a container so as to convert… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| sublimed | That has undergone sublimation (sublimation n. 1a); produced by sublimation. See also Special uses. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| subtiliate | A volatile substance. rare. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| supping | The action of sup v.; the taking of liquid, semi-liquid, or soft food in small quantities… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| suppository | A medicinal preparation, typically in the form of a small, solid cone or cylinder of… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| syncope | Pathol. Failure of the heart's action, resulting in loss of consciousness, and sometimes in death. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tamarisk | A plant of the genus Tamarix, esp. T. gallica, the common tamarisk (called in Latin myrīca… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| temperable | Of a person: = temperate adj. 1. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tenacle | pl. Forceps, pincers, nippers; cf. tenaculum n. 1. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tenasmon | = tenesmus n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| terebration | Surg. The operation of trephining. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| testudo | Pathol. = Talpa n. 2: see quots. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| thorax | Anat. and Zool. That part of the body of a mammal between the neck and the abdomen… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tincture | A colouring matter, dye, pigment; spec. a dye used as a cosmetic. Obs. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tithymal | An old name of the Spurge genus of plants. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| trachea | The musculo-membranous tube extending from the larynx to the bronchi, and surrounded… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| transversary | Transverse. Obs. rare. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| trepan | A surgical instrument in the form of a crown-saw, for cutting out small pieces of bone, esp. from the skull. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| trepan | trans. To operate upon with a trepan; to saw through with a trepan, as a bone of the skull. Also absol. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| trepanation | The operation of trepanning; perforation of a bone, esp. of the skull, by a trepan. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| trochisk | A medicated tablet or disk; a (round or ovate) pastille or lozenge; = troche n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| turpeth | A cathartic drug prepared from the root of East Indian jalap, Ipomœa Turpethum, an… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| tutty | A crude oxide of zinc found adhering in grey or brownish flakes to the flues of furnaces… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ulcer | Pathol. An erosive solution of continuity in any external or internal surface of the… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ulceration | The action, process, or state of forming ulcers or of becoming ulcerated. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| unctuose | = unctuous adj. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| uncture | Ointment. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| undersetter | One who or that which supports or upholds. Also fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| untrest | Mistrust. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| uvula | Anat. The conical fleshy prolongation hanging from the middle of the pendent margin of… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| vaporose | Vaporous; easily vaporizing. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| varix | Pathol. An abnormal dilatation or enlargement of a vein or artery, usually accompanied… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| vena | A vein. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| venomy | Venomous, spiteful, malignant. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ventose | trans. To bleed (a patient) by means of a cupping-glass; to apply the cup to (a wound, etc.). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ventricle | One or other of the two cavities in the heart by means of which the blood is… | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| vertiginy | = vertigo n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| ville | = villus n. 2. (Only in pl.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| villous | Of the inner coat of the stomach or intestines. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| vire | = virus n. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| virulent | Of wounds or ulcers: Characterized by the presence of corrupt or poisonous matter. Obs. (passing into next). | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| viscate | Inviscated. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| viscose | Viscid, viscous. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| viscous | Of substances: Having a glutinous or gluey character. Cf. viscid adj. 1. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| voluntary | Physiol. Of bodily actions: Regulated or governed by the volitional faculty; subject to the will. (Cf. involuntary adj. 1b.) | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
| well-coloured | | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| wine-lees | The sediment deposited in a vessel containing wine. Also fig. | 1400 | Go To Quotation |
