SCYPHUS

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1894 · p. 20

(Lat.), n. m. Sif(skuf)'u3s(u4s). A cup or a cup shaped structure, [a, 35.] Lapideus s. in oculo. A cup-like calculous concretion in the eye, corresponding probably to what is now known as o ification of the chorioid. [F.] S. auditorium, S. cochleae, S. Vieu enii. See INFUNDIBULUM cochleae. [s. 465]