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The division of a nerve, for the relief of neuralgia, or for other purposes. Dunglison.

dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus. Dunglison.

determining and registering the duration of more or less complex operations of the mind. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to a hospital; as, nosocomial atmosphere. Dunglison.

A cloudy object or appearance in urine. Dunglison.

Obstetrics. [R.] Dunglison.

The transient approximation of the edges of a natural opening; imperforation. Dunglison. Occlusion of gases (Chem. & Physics), the phenomenon of absorbing gases, as exhibited by platinum, palladium, iron, or charcoal; thus, palladium absorbs, or occludes, nearly a thousand times its own volume of hydrogen, and in this…

A soft ointment prepared from oil. Dunglison.

n abscess, or the removal of a tumor, with a cutting instrument. [Written also onkotomy.] Dunglison.

l and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic. Dunglison.

Orbital. [R.] Dunglison.

Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak.

the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. Dunglison.

An operation or process by which the total or partial loss of a bone is remedied. Dunglison.

A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment, or to perish secretly, were thrust, or lured to fall. Sudden in the sun An oubliette winks. Where is he Gone. Mrs. Browning.

Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper. Dunglison.

Coaptation. [Obs.] Dunglison.

A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing. Dunglison.

ering day. Milton. Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads. Shak. As if through a dungeon grate he peered. Coleridge.

Inflammation of the pericardium. Dunglison.