drop

(drop) [1,. gué’ta]. 1. A minute ma or sphere of liquid as it hangs or falls. 2. A medicine to be taken in drops. 3. A spheric or spheroid solid ma , sometimes medicated; a kind of troche. ague-d. solution of pota ium arsenite. Bateman’s d., a tincture of catechu, with opium and camphor: used for coughs. The same name is given to other similar mixtures. black d., vinegar of opium, or acetum opii. d.-culture. See culture. d.-finger, paralysis of one finger, due to the rupture of a tendon. d.-foot, a paralysis of the toes and part of the foot: often due to alcoholic neuritis. d.-hand, wrist-drop; a hand paralysis due to lead-poisoning. - ing d. See under culture. Hoffmann’s d's, Hoffmann’s anodyne. See under anodyne. @.- jaw, the paralytic stage of rabies in a dog in which the jaw falls. d.-phalangette, a condition in which the terminal phalanx of a finger or toe is permanently flexed. d. serene. Sec guéta serena. @.-shoulder, depre ion of one shoulder below the level of the other. stomach-d’s, a stomachic tincture; an aromatized tincture of gentian and centuary. Thielemann’s d’s. See Thielemann’s mixture, under mixture. toe-d., inability to lift the toes or the anterior portion of the foot. wrist-d. Sce wrist-drop.