AUGMENTATION

An Illustrated Encyclopaedic Medical Dictionary · 1891 · p. 2

n. A‘g-me%nt-a’shu8n, See AUG MENTUM. .),n.n. A‘g(a3-u4g)-me?nt'utm(utm). From augere, to increase. Gr., aigy,,atéyots. Fr., augment, Ger., Zunehmen. It.,Sp., aumento. An old term for that period or stage of a disease in which it is increasing in intensity. [A, 268.]