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Name: Description: Calcination The use of heat to produce a change in a body; or the separation of the more volatile part of any compound with heat. Caligo Problems with vision, including total or partial loss of sight. See also entry for amaurosis. Cardiac Of or relating to the heart, also known as cordis. Cardialgia Experience of heartburn, pain and a sensation of heat around the heart or stomach, often accompanied by indigestion. Cardiogmus To have a gnawing pain at the mouth of the stomach. It is seen as synonymous with cardialgia. Carus A term applied to different forms of heavy sleep or insensibility. Catamenia Menstrual discharge; monthly period. Cataphora Meaning to render sleepy. It is the unusual propensity for sleep. Chyle The white milky fluid formed by the action of the pancreatic juice and the bile on the chyme, and contained in the lymphatics of the intestines. The term was applied to the fluid in the intestine just before absorption. Clavus Hystericus Severe head pain. A shooting pain in the forehead that is sharply defined, and typically described as feeling like a nail being driven into the head often associated with hysteria. Coagulum A mass of coagulated matter, a clot of blood. Colliquative Having the effect of dissolving or wasting. Can be applied to profuse discharges which cause the body to waste away, or to diseases characterised by such discharges; as colliquative diarrhoea, colliquative sweat, colliquative fever. Concussion The sudden and violent motion to the brain which causes a sudden swelling of blood-vessels in the brain. Constipation See entry for costiveness. Convulsions Condition characterised by involuntary contraction of the muscles, convulsive fits, motions, affections, spasms. Corona Veneris Term used for syphilitic blotches on the forehead which often extend around it like a crown. Coryza The running at the nose which constitutes or accompanies a cold in the head. Costiveness A person is said to be costive when the excretion from the intestines does not happen daily. Also known as constipation, constipatio, constipatus and obstipatio. Cramp A sudden painful rigidity of a muscle which causes excruciating pain. Cystorrhoea A discharge of mucus from the bladder. Also known as vesical catarrh.
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- Calcination
The use of heat to produce a change in a body; or the separation of the more volatile part of any compound with heat.
- Caligo
Problems with vision, including total or partial loss of sight. See also entry for amaurosis.
- Cardiac
Of or relating to the heart, also known as cordis.
- Cardialgia
Experience of heartburn, pain and a sensation of heat around the heart or stomach, often accompanied by indigestion.
- Cardiogmus
To have a gnawing pain at the mouth of the stomach. It is seen as synonymous with cardialgia.
- Carus
A term applied to different forms of heavy sleep or insensibility.
- Catamenia
Menstrual discharge; monthly period.
- Cataphora
Meaning to render sleepy. It is the unusual propensity for sleep.
- Chyle
The white milky fluid formed by the action of the pancreatic juice and the bile on the chyme, and contained in the lymphatics of the intestines. The term was applied to the fluid in the intestine just before absorption.
- Clavus Hystericus
Severe head pain. A shooting pain in the forehead that is sharply defined, and typically described as feeling like a nail being driven into the head often associated with hysteria.
- Coagulum
A mass of coagulated matter, a clot of blood.
- Colliquative
Having the effect of dissolving or wasting. Can be applied to profuse discharges which cause the body to waste away, or to diseases characterised by such discharges; as colliquative diarrhoea, colliquative sweat, colliquative fever.
- Concussion
The sudden and violent motion to the brain which causes a sudden swelling of blood-vessels in the brain.
- Constipation
See entry for costiveness.
- Convulsions
Condition characterised by involuntary contraction of the muscles, convulsive fits, motions, affections, spasms.
- Corona Veneris
Term used for syphilitic blotches on the forehead which often extend around it like a crown.
- Coryza
The running at the nose which constitutes or accompanies a cold in the head.
- Costiveness
A person is said to be costive when the excretion from the intestines does not happen daily. Also known as constipation, constipatio, constipatus and obstipatio.
- Cramp
A sudden painful rigidity of a muscle which causes excruciating pain.
- Cystorrhoea
A discharge of mucus from the bladder. Also known as vesical catarrh.
- Calcination
