An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionaryBeing a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French and German languages . o2«glot)-ti2-di(de), epiglottiditidos (-is). From eirtyAwTTts, the epiglottis (see also-itis*). Fr., ipiglottite. Ger., Kehldeclcelentziinaung. Inflamma-tion of the epiglottis. [L, 50 (a, 14).] EPIGLOTTIS (Lat.), n. f. E»p-ii-glon(glot)ti! Gen., epi-glottidos (-is). Gr., ejrtyAwTTts, eTriyAwo-tris (from em, upon, andyAucro-a, the tongue). Fr., epiglotte. Ger., Kehldeckel. It., epi-glott
An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionaryBeing a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French and German languages . o2«glot)-ti2-di(de), epiglottiditidos (-is). From eirtyAwTTts, the epiglottis (see also-itis*). Fr., ipiglottite. Ger., Kehldeclcelentziinaung. Inflamma-tion of the epiglottis. [L, 50 (a, 14).] EPIGLOTTIS (Lat.), n. f. E»p-ii-glon(glot)ti! Gen., epi-glottidos (-is). Gr., ejrtyAwTTts, eTriyAwo-tris (from em, upon, andyAucro-a, the tongue). Fr., epiglotte. Ger., Kehldeckel. It., epi-glottide. Sp., epiglotis. 1. A thin leaf-shaped lamella of yellownbro-cartilage. placed behind the tongue and in front of the superioropening of the larynx, which it closes during deglutition. Its freeextremity is broad and rounded i its attached end is narrow and isconnected to the receding itngle between the two alae of the thyreoidcartilage by the thyreo-epiglottic ligament, and to the posterior surface of the body of the hyoid bone by the hyo-epiglottic liga-ment ; and its anterior surface is connected to the sides and baseof the tongue by folds of mucous membrane (the glosso-epiglottidean. the epiglottis as seen from behind, (after weisse.) a, tlie epiglottis; 6, the uvula; c, the soft palate; iZ, the posterior nares; e, the tongue;/, the oeaophagus : ^, the trachea; h, the inferior maxillary hone, ligaments). [L, 115.] 2. Of Straus, the diaphragm of the homedring which forms the lips of the stigmata in insects. [L, 180.]^E*uiuskeln (Ger.). See Thyreo-epiglottideus and Aryt.^no-epiglottideits superior and inferior.—Ewulst (Ger.). See Tuber-CULUM epiglottidis. EPIGLOTTITIS (Lat.), n. f. E2p-i2-glo2t(glot)-ti(te)ti2s. Gen.,epiglottitidos {-is). See Epiglottiditis. EPIGLOTTUM (Lat.), n. n. Ep-i2-glo2t(elot)tuSm(tum). OfParacelsus, a silver instrument for elevating the eyelids. [L, 84.] EPlGLUTIS (Lat.), n. f. E2p-i2-glu2(glu)ti2s. Gen., epiglut-idos (-is). Gr., ejriyAouTi? (f
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