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Glossary of
Terms
- Acrid—An irritant,
corrosive poison.
- Aeolus—The God
or keeper of the winds.
- Agrionidae—A
family of neuropters comprising the vari-colored dragon flies.
- Albuminous—Of,
pertaining to, like, characterized by, or consisting of albumin
or albumen.
- Algae—Green,
brown, or red aquatic cryptogamous plants occurring in both fresh
and sea water.
- Alimentary canal—The
passage extending from the mouth to the anus, in which food is
received, digested, and assimilated.
- Allegation—A
formal assertion.
- Alkaline—The
opposite of acid—extended to anything that will neutralize
an acid.
- Anemia—Deficiency
of blood or of red corpuscles.
- Anophele—The
malarial mosquito.
- Antennae—Aerial
collecting wires. Appendages to the head of an insect.
- Antiseptic—Anything
that destroys or restrains the growth of germs.
- Anus—The opening
at the aboral extremity of the Alimentary Canal through which
the excrement is expelled.
- Arterioles—Little
arteries.
- Babiosis—Texas
fever; tick fever in cattle.
- Bacteria—The
smallest of all organized forms of life.
- Cachexia—An acquired
constitutional perversion of nutrition.
- Capillary—A minute
blood vessel, like a hair.
- Centrifugal—Directed
or tending away from a center.
- Chitin—The horny
outer covering of all insects.
- Coagulation—A clotting.
- Colon—The superior
part of the large intestines.
- Comminuted—Reduced
to minute particles of powder.
- Concomitant—Any
thing or event considered as accompanying or coexisting with
another.
- Congenital—Existing
from birth; innate.
- Contagious—Transmissible
by contact; catching.
- Corpuscle—Minute
body. Cell.
- Desquamation—Scaling of
the cuticle.
- Diagnosis—Recognition
of disease from its symptoms.
- Duct—A tube to
convey a liquid.
- Effete—Worn out
and incapable of further production, for instance, referring
to the soil, an animal, or a plant.
- Empyrean—The
upper sky; also cosmic space.
- Endemic—Peculiar
to or prevailing in or among some (specified) country or people.
- Epidemicity—The
quality of being epidemic.
- Excretion—Any
waste matter discharged from the system.
- Excretory—Pertaining
to excretion.
- Extirpation—Getting
rid of, as by taking out by the roots. Destroying wholly.
- Fauna—The totality
of the animals inhabiting a given area, or existing within a
given period.
- Ferruginous—Containing,
or having the nature of, iron.
- Fibro-elastic—Character
of a tissue made up of both white-fibrous and yellow-elastic
connective tissues.
- Flora—The totality
of plants growing without cultivation in a country or district.
- Foci—Plural of
focus, which is a point of meeting of a series of lines.
- Fomites—A substance
capable of retaining contagious germs and thus propagating infectious
disease, such as carpet, bedding, etc.
- Gametes—The sexual
reproductive cells of the malarial parasite.
- Gestation—The
act of carrying eggs or ova, especially of carrying a fetus in
the uterus; pregnancy.
- Gland—An organ
which eliminates from the blood or adds its substance thereto.
- Gregarious—Having
the habit of associating in flocks, herds, or companies.
- Gyrate—To revolve,
especially in a spiral or helix, as does a cyclone.
- Hemameba—An ameboid
parasite inhabiting the blood. Hemoglobin—The red coloring
matter of the blood.
- Hibernation—Passing
the winter season in a secluded place and in a torpid state,
as do certain animals.
- Hormones—Secretions
of glands having excitant properties.
- Hygiene—Sanitary
science.
- Hygiostatic—(Coined
word) meaning "Standing for Health."
- Hypochondriac—One
who is morbidly depressed or causelessly anxious about his health.
- Hypodermic—Of,
or pertaining to, the area under the skin.
- Immunization—The
act of making immune, for instance, protecting from infection
by inoculation.
- Infectious—Capable
of communicating disease, as by entrance of pathogenic germs
into an organism in any manner.
- Ingest—To put
or take into the stomach.
- Inject—To introduce
a fluid by injection; as, to inject morphine hypodermically.
- Macerated—Reduced
to a soft mass by soaking or digestion.
- Mammal—A vertebrate
animal whose female has mammae, or that suckles its young.
- Mammalian—Of
or pertaining to mammals.
- Melanine—A pigment
generated by the malarial parasite.
- Merozoit—The
next to the last phase in the evolution of the malarial parasite
in the body of the mosquito.
- Meteorological—Of
or pertaining to meteorology or atmospheric phenomena.
- Microbes—Synonymous
with germs, bacteria, etc.
- Micro-organism—Same
as microbe.
- Migrane—Neuralgia
of half of the head.
- Mucus—The viscid
liquid secretion of mucuous membranes.
- Orientation—The
determination of. position with reference to the points of the
compass.
- Oviposit—To lay
an egg or eggs.
- Palpation—The
process of examining or exploring morbid conditions by means
of touch.
- Paludic—Of or
pertaining to a marsh or swamp.
- Parasite—An organism,
either an animal or a plant, that exists on or in some other
organism.
- Pathological—Pertaining
to disease in living things.
- Phagocyte—A white
corpuscle that takes into its substance and digests bacteria
and other noxious matter.
- Physiological—Pertaining
to the functions of living organisms.
- Physio-pathological—(Coined
word) meaning pertaining to both health and disease.
- Piroplasma—A
blood parasite inhabiting the red corpuscles of cattle.
- Plasmodia—A blood
parasite inhabiting the red corpuscles of man.
- Prepuce—The foreskin
of the penis.
- Protozoan—A primary
division of the animal kingdom variously ranked and limited,
embracing organisms consisting of a single cell or group of cells
not separated into different tissues.
- Reticulated—Meshed.
- Retinal—Pertaining
to the retina or internal membrane of the eye.
- Salivary—Pertaining
to the saliva or spittle.
- Schematic—'Pertaining
to or of the nature of a general plan.
- Schizogony—The
cycle of evolution on the part of -the malarial parasite that
occurs in the body of man.
- Scorbutus—Scurvy;
an acquired constitutional perversion of nutrition due to errors
in diet.
- Seepage—The oozing
or percolation of fluid; or the fluid or moisture that oozes.
- Serum—The more
fluid constitutents of blood, lymph, etc.
- Skeletal—Of or
pertaining to the skeleton.
- Splenomegalia—Enlargement
of the spleen.
- Sporozoit—The
last phase in the evolution of the malarial parasite that occurs
in the body of the mosquito.
- Sporulating—Developing
spores.
- Sustentacular—Sustaining,
supporting.
- Therapeutic—A
medicine efficacious in curing or alleviating disease.
- Thoracic—Pertaining
to the thorax.
- Toxines—Poisonous
compounds of animal, bacterial, or vegetable origin.
- Variola—Smallpox.
- Ventral—Of, pertaining
to, or situated on or near the abdomen.
- Viable—Capable
of maintaining life.
- Volplane—To swoop
toward the earth from a height at an angle considerably greater
than the gliding angle.
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