hind-gut

(hind’gut). The embryonic structure whence the colon is formed. hind-kidney (hind-kid’ne). The metanephros. hinge-joint (hinj’joint). See ginglymus. hip (hip). The region on each side of the pelvis..-bone, the os in nomina tum. h.-joint, the articulation of the innominate bone and the femur, h.-joint disease, tuberculosis of the hip-joint, resulting in chronic suppuration, the development of necrosis and fistule, or anklyosis from plastic effusion. The disease is marked by pain which is often felt in the knee, and is increased on pre ure over the trochanter, sudden crying out during the night, muscular contraction, stiffne of the joint, etc. snapp h., a condition marked by a slipping around of the hip-joint, with sometimes an audible snap, due to the slipping of a tendinous band over the great trochanter. hipped (hipt). Having a fracture at the point of the hip: said of horses. hippiater (hip’e-a-ter). A veterinarian. hippiatric (hip-e-at’rik). Veterinary. hippiatrics, hippiatry (hip-c-at’riks, hip’e-at-re) Gr. ἵππος horse + larpés physician]. Veterinary medicine and surgery. hippo (hip’o). A dangerous arrow-poison from eastern Africa. hippo camp (hip’o-kamp). Same as hippocampus. hippocampal (hip-o-kam’pal). Pertaining to the hippocampus. hippocampus major (hip-o-kam’pus)'[Gr. ἱππό- καμπος sea-horse]. A curved structure on the floor of the middle horn of the lateral ventricle. mi’nor, a white elevation on the floor of the terior cornu of the lateral ventricle. Ὦ. nu’dus, a small part of the hippocampus on the median surface of the brain, in the cavity formed by the splenial bending of the fascia dentata. hippocastanum = (hip-o-kas’tan-um). chestnut. See E£scul us. hippocratic (hip-o-krat‘ik). Pertaining to er described by Hippo crates, a famous Greek physician, born in the island of Cos, 460 B. C., and called the “ Father of Medicine.” He taught the ‘ humoral theory ” of disease, and from his pupils he exacted an oath (hippocratic oath) that they would never abuse their trust by criminal practice nor disclose profe ional secrets. Of the 87 writings forming the so-called “ hippocratic collection,” many were doubtle composed by other writers. h. face. See facies hippocratica. hippocratism (hip-o’krat-izm). The hippocratic system of treatment, based on imitating the proce es of nature. hippol (hip’ol). Methylene hippuric acid; a colorle , crystalline substance used as a urinary antiseptic. hip polite, hippolith (hip’o-lit, hip’o-lith) (Gr. ἵππος horse + λίθος stone]. Tr, or concretion, from the alimentary canal of the horse. Hippomane (hip-om’a-ne) (Gr. ἵππος horse + μανία madne ]. A genus of euphorbiaceous trees. Horse- 442 HISTIDIN H. mancinel’la is the highly poisonous manchineel tree: used in homeopathy.