ATROPHODERMA

(Lat.), n. n. A2t(a3t)-ro2f-o(o3)-du6rm- (de2rm)'a3. Gen., -derm'atos (-at is). From arpo0p$, ill-fed, and .a. the skin. Of Crocker, atrophy of the skin in which there may be either simply diminution in the number or size of its component elements or a degenerative alteration in those elements. [a, 34.] A. albidum. A variety of xeroderma (of Kaposi) in which the skin from the middle of the thigh to the sole, more rarely from the upper arm to the palm, exhibits white patches, is stretched, and glistens, the epidermis being thin and peeling off in shining flakes. There is hyperaesthesia. [a, 34.] A. idiopathi- < n in. A quantitative or degenerative atrophy of the skin not due to any other disease, [a, 34.] A. neuriticum. See Glo y SKIN. A. pig men to sum. Xeroderma pig men to sum. [a, 34.] A. st riiit urn et maculatum. Linear atrophy of the skin, [a, 34.] A. symptom at i cum. A. symptomatic of some other disease of the skin or of the trophic nerves, [a, 34.] Senile a. Atrophy of the skin and its appendages in senile degeneration, [a, 34.] A TROP HOD ERM A TOSES (Lat,), n. f. pi. A2t(a3t)"ro2f-o- (os )-dusrm(de2rm)-a2t(a3t)-os'ez(as). From arpo^ia, atrophy, and <5<?p/j.a, skin. An order of skin diseases in which there is atrophy of the cutaneous ti ues, [a, 34.] ATROPIN A. Lamellae atropinae. Discs of atropine; BV grain gelatin discs containing each jjta of a grain of atropine sulphate, [a, 35.] ATROPINE. Discs of a. See Lamellae, ATROPINE (in Supplement). ATTIC OF THE TYMPANUM. For attic us tympanic us substitute coenaculum. ATTITUDE. A. of the foetus. The position of the foetal ovoid as regards the relation of its parts to the mother. ATTRAHENS A. aurem. A thin fan-shaped muscle having pale indistinct fibres that arise from the lateral edge of the aponeurosis of the occipito-frontal is and converge to be inserted into a projection on the front of the helix, [a, 34.] [s. 759]