Surra

or Surrah Disease. The name given by English army veterins, surgeons to an epizootic pernicious anemia in hors mules, and camels, a ociated with the preset infusorian. It nas i incapacitated the English cavalry service in India, killing 50 per cent, of the horses. See Parasites. Any medicine or ingredient used as a substitute for another and more expensive ingredient, or one to which there is a special objection in any particular case, jrsumduction. The power of the two eyes of fusing two images when one eye has a prism vertically before it. irvival (sur-z'i'-val). In biology, the persistence of an individual or race, after the general extinction of related forms. S. of the Fittest. See Selection , Natural, and Evolution. isceptible. Sensitive to an influence. In pathology, liable to become affected with a disease. is pended. I. Hanging; applied to an ovule hanging from the ovarian wall, or a seed from the summit of a cell. 2. Interrupted. S. Animation, a term sometimes applied to the temporary ce ation of the vital functions. It may be due to asphyxia, to syncope, or to the trance-like condition that closely simulates death, in which the patient may remain for some hours or even days. S. Matter, undi olved particles diffused throughout a liquid. is pension (sus - pen' - shun). The act or condition of hanging, as applied to an organ or part. Also, a mode of treatment of certain diseases, especially tabes dorsal is, in which the patient is so placed that the whole weight of the body hangs upon the neck, the head supported at the chin and the occiput. The I stretching of the spinal cord sometimes removes the morbid proce in a manner at present not well under stood; also, that condition of a finely divided solid in which it is held undi olved in a liquid. S. -treatment. See under Suspension..is pens or. In biology, a term applied to the chain of cells formed by division of the germ cell in the embryo-sac previous to the formation of the embryo. A Suspensorium. See Pro-embryo. -ispensorium.