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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.