A Dictionary of medical terminology, dental surgery, and the collateral sciences

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P. Blakiston, Son & Company, 1882 - 738 Seiten
 

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Seite 593 - Repeat these movements deliberately and perseveringly, fifteen times only in a minute. (When the patient lies on the thorax, this cavity is compressed by the weight of the body, and expiration takes place. When he is turned on the side, this pressure is removed, and inspiration occurs.) 6th. When the...
Seite 148 - Chemistry is a department of science, the objects of which are to investigate the nature and properties of the elements of matter, and their mutual actions and combinations ; to ascertain the proportions in which they unite, and the modes of separating them when united ; and to enquire into the laws and powers which preside over and affect these agencies.
Seite iv - DENTAL CARIES and its Causes : an Investigation into the influence of Fungi in the Destruction of the Teeth, by Drs.
Seite iv - Edition, Carefully Revised and Enlarged. By FERDINAND JS GORGAS, MD, DDS, Professor of Dental Surgery in the Baltimore College, etc.
Seite 596 - F., one of the most volatile liquids obtained by the distillation of petroleum, and which has been applied to the production of cold by evaporation. It is a hydrocarbon, wholly destitute of oxygen, and is the lightest of all known liquids, having a specific gravity of OG25.
Seite 366 - ... impaired, and speech and mastication are often difficult and painful. When the tongue is affected, its surface is in general at first covered with a whitish fur, through which the red and swollen follicles may often be seen projecting. The fur sometimes breaks off, leaving the surface red, smooth, and glossy, with here and there prominent follicles, and very sensitive to the contact of even mild substances ; or the surface may be dry, hard, and gashed with painful fissures. When the gums are...
Seite 144 - ... can point out the exact locality of every nerve, vein, muscle, tendon, etc., but the means by which each performs its appropriate part, seldom awakens curiosity. Turn to a medical dictionary for a definition of the brain ; the learned physiological lexicographer says...
Seite 649 - The inner tube for delivering the ether runs upwards nearly to the extremity of the outer tube. Now, when the bellows are worked, a double current of air is produced, one current descending and pressing upon the ether forcing it along the inner tube, and the other ascending through the outer tube and playing upon the column of ether as it escapes through the fine jet.
Seite 365 - ... the membrane, extending sometimes to the submucous tissue, and even to the neighboring structures, as the sublingual and submaxillary glands, and the absorbent glands of the neck, and occasions considerable tumefaction in all these parts. In the erythematous form it is characterized by redness, a sense of heat, and sometimes considerable tenderness, but is not usually attended with acute pain ; when deeper in the tissue, it is often very painful. Portions of the epithelium sometimes become opaque,...
Seite 483 - It not unfrequently happens that parts the most remote become the apparent seat of pain, from the exposure of the nerve of a tooth. I have seen this occur not only in the face, over the scalp, in the ear, or underneath the lower jaw, but down the neck, over the shoulder, and along the whole length of the arm.

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