clo'nus

[G klonos, a tumult.] A form of convulsion marked by contractions and relaxations of a muscle, occurring in rapid succe ion, ankle c, foot-c, see under ankle, wrist c, see under wrist, toe c, see under toe. Paris i an surgeon, 179^1-1883.] Stilling's canal, canal is* hyaloideus. C.*s gang'lion, septum femorale. C.'s her'nia, a femoral hernia perforating the aponeurosis of the pectineus and insinuating itself between this aponeurosis and the muscle, lying therefore behind the femoral ve els. C.'s sep'tum, C.'s ganglion. C.'s sign, a bright needle is not quickly rusted when pa ed into the muscular ti ue, if life is extinct. Clostridium. form bacteria, the shape being due to a central spore. C. butyr'icum, a variety of Bacillus butyric us. C. past eur i a'num, a nitrifying bacterium which utilizes directly the nitrogen of the air. coagulum, a thrombus, ag'ony c, a heart clot formed during the act of dying in cases of prolonged heart failure, ante-mor'tem c, a blood clot found at autopsy, which was formed in any of the heart cavities or the great ve els before death, lam'inated c, a clot formed of a succe ion of layers such as occurs in the natural cure of an aneurysm, pa ive c, a c. formed in an aneurysmal sac in consequence of the circula-