The Student's Medical Dictionary: Including All the Words and Phrases Generally Used in Medicine, with Their Proper Pronunciation and Definitions--

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P. Blakiston, 1896 - Medicine - 701 pages
 

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Page iii - The Student's Medical Dictionary. INCLUDING ALL THE WORDS AND PHRASES GENERALLY USED IN MEDICINE, WITH THEIR PROPER PRONUNCIATION AND DEFINITIONS, BASED ON RECENT MEDICAL LITERATURE. With...
Page 248 - It consists of three parts — the Vestibule, the Semicircular Canals, and the Cochlea.
Page 332 - The dissector has observed that the spermatic cord in the male and the round ligament in the female pierces the abdominal wall above Poupart's ligament.
Page 248 - The apparatus of hearing, as it exists in man and the mammalia, is composed of three parts —the external ear, the middle ear or tympanum, and the internal ear or labyrinth. The external ear consists of...
Page ii - One pleasing feature of the book is that the reader can almost invariably find the definition under the word he looks for, without being referred from one place to another, as is too commonly the case in medical dictionaries. The tables of the bacilli, micrococci, leucomaines and ptomaines are excellent, and contain a large amount of information in a limited space.
Page 355 - ... this child will infect the most healthy nurse, whether she suckle it, or merely handle and dress it; and yet this child is never known to infect its own mother, even though she suckle it while it has venereal ulcers of the lips and tongue.
Page 304 - ... down the side of the tube so as to form a layer at the bottom. A...
Page 68 - It is situated upon the sides and front of the aorta, between the origins of the superior and inferior mesenteric arteries.
Page 168 - Jacobson's canal (one that opens on the lower surface of the petrous bone between the carotid canal and the groove for the internal jugular vein. It transmits Jacobson's nerve).
Page 89 - First, to blow up the lungs by a mouth-to-mouth inflation and then to grasp the infant with the left hand, allowing the neck to rest between the thumb and forefinger, the head falling far over backward...

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