AMMONIAC US

(Lat.). adj. A?m(a?m)-mo-ni(ne)/a?k(a3k)-u3scas ae Of or pertaining to ammonia. 2. Of or pertaining to ammoniac. CUM.—Gumini ammoniacum. See AMMONIACUM (ist def.) and the major list.—Sal ammoniacum, Sala. Sal ammoniac. See the major AMMONIÆMIA (Lat.),n.f. A?m(a%m)-mo-ni?-e/(a3/e?) mi?-a3, From ammonia, and alp a, blood. Fr., ammon iémie, intoxication ammoniac ale. Ger., Ammoniämie. It., ammon i oem i a. A condition, consequent upon extravasation or retention of urine, in which the blood is supposed to be poisoned by ammonium carbonate set free by decomposition of the retained urea. Its chief symptoms are anorexia, nausea, and vomiting; a coated tongue, which in severe eases becomes dry and of a dark-red color: sometimes obstinate constipation, more usually diarrhoea with frequent and copious watery stools; a cold, clammy surface with normal or subnormal body temperature and small, frequent pulse; ammoniacal exhalations from the lungs and skin; and grave cerebral symptoms, soon terminating in fatal cases in coma. “The affection is sometimes a ociated with uræmia, from which, however, it is totally different in pathology, and was thought by Frerichs to be the cause of puerperal eclampsia. [D; MI.