CUTIDURE

tension c's, curved lines in which the cancellous ti ue of bones is arranged according to the directions of tension exerted on the bones. Traube's c's, Traube-Hering c's, high, bold curves seen in the tracings of the sphygmograph when respira: tion has been completely arrested. Wunderlich’s c., the typic curve of typhoid fever. An alkaloid of cnchona. One of the cinchona alkaloids. Cusco’s speculum (koos’kéz) [Edouard Gabriel Cusco, French surgeon, 1819-1894]. See speculum. A variety of cinchona. One of the cinchona alkaloids. An alkaloid of cinchona. A genus of parasitic convolvulaceous plants, the dodders. Many species are employed as medicines. Cushing’s suture (kush’ingz) [Hayward W. Cush- ing, contemporary Boston surgeon]. See suture. An anatomic structure resembling a cushion. coronary c., the cushion like band of vascular ti ue at the upper edge of the wall of the hoof of the horse. It is concerned in the secretion of the horny wall. Called also coronary band and coronary ring. c. of the epiglottis, a median elevation of the mucous mem brane within the larynx, below the epiglottis. eustachian c., a part of the posterior cartilaginous wall of the eustachian tube. vant’s c., a ridge projecting from the posterior and lateral walls of the nasopharynx, at the level of the free margin of the soft palate, in persons with sclerotic or atrophic rhinitis. It acts with the soft palate in closing the opening from the nose to the oropharynx. plantar c., a wedge-shaped ma of elastic ti ue overlying the frog of a horse's foot. suc c’s, a pair of capsules filled with fatty lobules overlying the buccinator muscles in young infants. cusol (ku’sol). A solution of copper citrate contain- ing sodium chlorid and borocitrate, used in eye and skin diseases. cusp (kusp), A tapering projection; especially one of the projections upon the crown of a tooth, and one of the pointed segments of a cardiac valve. Angustura. —a canine tooth. Having a cusp or cusps. See kou o. A combination of cuprum citricum and sodium borocitricum: used as a bactericide in gonorrhea. Same as cutol. Pertaining to the skin.