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Página 5 - ... Committee on Nomenclature of Diseases, reported that, in accordance with instructions given to them by the Association in 1870, they had prepared a nomenclature to be adopted and observed by the practitioners of the United States. The system presented by the committee is based upon that of the Royal College of Physicians of London, with such additions and modifications as in the judgment of the committee were needed. In selecting Latin equivalents the committee had frequently departed from the...
Página 7 - ... ask for its adoption: Resolved, That the report of the Committee on the Nomenclature of Diseases be referred to a special committee of five members, to be appointed by the President, who shall examine it and report upon its final disposition at the present meeting of the Association. Resolved. That on the favorable report of such committee, it shall be referred back to the Committee on the Nomenclature of Diseases for the preparation of an index to be published with it, in the forthcoming volume...
Página 8 - ... usually rapid growth and reproduction. When ulcerated it protrudes in large masses, which bleed copiously. Fungus hsematodes. A form of medullary cancer, characterized by interstitial hemorrhage. c. Epithelial cancer. Epithelioma. Syn. Cancroid. Cancer characterized by its frequent occurrence in parts supplied with epithelium, and by the resemblance of its cells to those of epithelium. d. Osteoid cancer. Carcinoma osteoides. Cancer usually occurring in bones, containing a large proportion of...
Página 8 - In certain epidemics it is frequently accompanied by a profuse purpuric eruption, and, occasionally, by secondary effusions into certain joints. Lesions of the brain and spinal cord and their membranes are found on dissection.
Página 8 - It occurs under two forms, named respectively glanders and farcy, being " an inflammatory affection of the skin and of the absorbent system, produced by the contagion of matter from a horse having glanders or farcy.
Página 8 - Definition : A deposit or growth that tends to spread indefinitely into the surrounding structures, and in the course of the lymphatics of the part affected, and to reproduce itself in remote parts of the body.
Página 8 - A condition of imperfect development and deformity of the whole body, especially of the head, occurring in the valleys of certain mountainous districts, and attended by feebleness or absence of the mental faculties and special senses, and often associated with g&itre.
Página 87 - Habitat : Tinea versicolor. Note. — To be returned amongst the parasitic diseases of the skin. 55. Microsporon mentagrophytes. (Gruby.) Habitat : Follicles of hair in Sycosis or Mentagra. Note. — To be returned amongst the parasitic diseases of the skin. The foregoing list might be extended by the addition of various parasitic vegetations, which have been reported under the names of Algsc, Fungi, Mycoderms, Leptomiti, &c., but the characters or the existence of which are still the subject of...
Página 41 - Polypus. Polypus. Note. — Under this head are included all pedunculated tumors growing from the cavity or neck of the uterus, whether mucous, cellular, or fibrous. 647. Tubercle of the womb. Tubercula uteri. 648. Displacements and distortions. Uterus luxatus vel distortus. a. Anteversion of the womb. Uteri anteversio. b. Retroversion of the womb. Uteri retroversio. c. Lateral version of the womb. Uteri lateroversio. d. Anteflexion of the womb. Uteri anteflexio. e. Retroflexion of the womb. Uteri...
Página 8 - Transactions; that one thousand extra copies be printed in cheap pamphlet form and distributed to the Profession, and that the question of the adoption of the nomenclature and classification by this Body be postponed until the next annual meeting.

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