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 . the temporal bone. See Squamous p. of the temporalbone.—Vaginal p. of the neck of the uterus. Lat., portiovaginalis cervicis (seu colli) uteri. Fr., p. vaginate du col ^r., Vaginalp (oder Scheidentheil) des Gebdrmutterhalses. Thatp. which projects into the vagina; sometimes called simply the* portio. PORTLANDIA (Lat.), n. f. Port-la^ndi^-as. From Portland,a proper name. Fr., portlandie. A ge
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 . the temporal bone. See Squamous p. of the temporalbone.—Vaginal p. of the neck of the uterus. Lat., portiovaginalis cervicis (seu colli) uteri. Fr., p. vaginate du col ^r., Vaginalp (oder Scheidentheil) des Gebdrmutterhalses. Thatp. which projects into the vagina; sometimes called simply the* portio. PORTLANDIA (Lat.), n. f. Port-la^ndi^-as. From Portland,a proper name. Fr., portlandie. A genus of the Portlandiece (Fr,, portlandlees) of Baillon are a series of theBubiacece. [B, 42 (a. 35).]—P. grandiflora. Fr., portlande agrandes fleurs. A West Indian species the bark of which is thechina nova (seu surinamensis), according to Martins. It is bitter,astringent, tonic, and febrifuge. [B, 173, 180 (a, 35).]—P. hexan-dra, P. speciosa. See Coutarka speciosa. POKTONARIUM (Lat.), n, n. Po2rt-oan-ar(a8r)i2-u3m(u*m).From porta, a gate. See Pylorus, PORTULACA (Lat.), a. f, Poart-u2Ku*l)-ak(a=k)as. Fr.,pourpier. Ger., Portulak. A genus of the Portulacacece (Fr., por-. PORTULACA OLERAOEA. [A, 327.] tulacacees; Ger., Portulacaceen), the Portnlacce of Adanson, wtnchare the purslanes, an order related to the CaryophyllacecB. ThePortulacaceoe of Reichenbach are a family of the Rosifiorce. [B. 173, 180 (a, 35).]—Aqua portulacse. Fr., eau (ou hydrolat) depourpier. A water distilled from the herb of P. oleracea. [B, 119(a, 38).]—P. oleracea. Fr,, pourpier cultivi^ porcelin, porcelUine^porchailles. Ger., gemeiner Portulak, Gemiisel- (oderKohl-) Portu-lak, Burzelkraut. Garden purslane. The herb, herba portulacoi,was formerly used as a refrigerant, diuretic, and seed, semina portulacae. (seu porcellanm), constituted a part ofthe four small cooling seeds {quatu<yr semina frigida minoi-a). Inthe East Indies the plant is used in gastritis and
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