AMBE

(Lat.), n. f£. A?m(a3m)‘be(ba). Fr., ambè, Ger., Hebstock, It.,ambi. 1, An old apparatus for reducing dislocations of the shoulder, said to have been invented by Hippo crates, Tt consisted of an upright piece of wood to which was hinged a uttered piece of board. The angle made by the two pieces was placed in the axilla with the arm secured by ans in the horizontal guttered piece, at right angles to the Peay By depre ing this the arm was extended and the upper end of’ the os brachii elevated so that it gaa slip into the socket. [L, 104.] 2 The edge of the orbit. [A,