Maltese Cross

A form of surgical dre ing made by taking a square piece of muslin or linen and folding it upon itself twice, the first fold making it oblong, and the second square. Thus prepared, one angle will be found to consist of four layers separable from one another. Let this angle be slit down within two or three inches of the center, and then the piece opened out, when it will be seen to have the form of a Maltese cro . It is used to dre stumps, altha (mal'-thah). Mineral tar, or pitch; a semifluid form of bitumen. In biology, a pudding-ti ue containing cells (Haeckel). althaxis mal-thaks'-is. Synonym of Malaxation. althobiose. Same as Maltose. altho blast 1 mal' -tho-blast. Any cell of the kind that gives rise to elastic, idipose, connective, or other soft ti ue, althusianism (mal-tliu'-se-an-izm). The doctrine that the increase is proportionately greater than the in of subsistence,