Perhaps the medical idea of staining the cicatrices of the eyes was suggested by the circumstance, that the Romans, like the ancient Egyptians, occasionally had recourse to dyeing or staining their eyebrows in the decorations of the toilet.
Galen defines Cicatrices and Albugo of the eye as follows:—“Cicatrix appellatur ubi nigro oculi ex alto ulcere membranae crassities supervenit, ut color albior apparet.
I could not learn whether these cows had calved or not, but there was a great appearance they had all been in season, for there were a great number of cicatrices on all these testicles.
Mery,[L] and by some of De Graaf's own observations, where he found fewer eggs in the matrix thancicatrices in the ovaries.
Having afterwards examined the other testicle, I counted four cicatrices and three glandular bodies; the foremost of which had pierced the membrane, was of a flesh colour, and the size of a pea.
A serious impediment to the passage of the child may be produced by adhesions of the sides of the os uteri to each other; by hard callous cicatrices resulting from ulcerations, lacerations, &c.
There is a condition of the os uteri which is occasionally met with, and which presents a degree of rigidity which we have never seen except where there have been adhesions and callous cicatrices from former injuries.
The deformities which are so liable to develop from contraction of the cicatrices are treated on general principles.
A fatal issue is rare, but disfiguring and disabling cicatrices may be left unless great care is employed.
At the postmortem examination the wounds in the organs were found to be healed, but the cicatrices were quite evident.
It has been ascribed to syphilis; but syphilitic leukoderma is generally the result ofcicatrices following syphilitic ulceration.
The arms of a good many, and the abdomen of a few, bore cicatrices from branding, apparently for the purpose of making them strong and relieving pains.
Cicatrices of sores in front of elbow joint, produced by armlets.
The resulting cicatrices may be recognized by the affected parts of the bowel being thin and more translucent than in health, and may retain these characters after the lapse of several years.
Extensive and deep cicatrices are not infrequently found in the site of the ulcerating local manifestations.
The question of repair with or without the production of cicatrices rests upon the behavior of the connective-tissue elements.
When, after a time, health is completely restored, markedcicatrices are left behind.
Its cicatriceson the soft palate are always a source of inconvenience, partly in swallowing, partly in speaking.
The two cicatrices were excised, and some fragments of cloth were removed.
Of the whole number of Indians vaccinated, I have either watched the progress of the disease, or examined the cicatrices of about seven hundred.
They boasted of getting linear cicatrices which could scarcely be seen, and evidently their practice fostered the best of surgical technique and was founded on excellent principles.
The older geologists were in the habit of placing these plants among the tree-ferns, principally on account of the cicatrices which were left at the junctions of the leaf-stalks with the stem, after the former had fallen off.
These have left in their places cicatrices or scars, showing the places from which they formerly grew.
Amongst the women, the shoulders, upper arms, and breasts are similarly marked as shown in the engraving here given, and in addition they have these rows of cicatrices across the inside of the thigh.
Although this is the common fashion, one sometimes meets men who have the cicatrices confined to the chest or to the shoulders, or to only one side of the body.
In some instances, the relative position of the puncta lachrymalia is altered by the cicatrices of the eyelids or tarsal cartilages, when the original wound has been imperfectly adapted: hence results an incurable epiphora.
There was occasional bleeding from an ulcerated fissure near the centre of the dorsum, and also from the lateral parts of the protruded portion: in the latter situation, several cicatrices were visible.
Both sexes are more or less ornamented with large raised cicatrices on the shoulders and across the chest, abdomen, and buttocks, and outside of the thighs.
The men had large prominentcicatrices on the shoulders, and across the breast and belly, the septum of the nose was perforated, and none of the teeth had been removed.
Badaga men have cicatrices on the shoulder and forearm as the result of branding with a fire-stick when they are lads, with the object, it is said, of giving strength, and preventing pain when milking or churning.
In like manner, the Todas have raised cicatrices (keloids) on the shoulder produced by branding with a fire-stick.
On his left side were many small round cicatrices burnt into the skin, which he said was a mode of marking common amongst his people.
On the other hand, they use the bow and arrow, and raise cicatrices by burning--both of which habits are Kelænonesian.
This is probably always the result of direct mechanical injury and the formation of rigid cicatrices which fail to dilate with the remainder of the passages at the approach of parturition.
In the softer skin if pigmented the cicatrices are white and frequently remain so for about a year, when the pigment returns.
Many of them wore chains, and on their bodies the cicatrices of the recent war were still fresh.
The only lesion visible in a tuberculous case may be cicatrices from healed processes.
Intubational treatment of chronic laryngeal stenosis may be tried in certain forms of stenosis in which the cicatrices do not seem very thick.
Spasmodic stenoses are differentiated by the absence of cicatrices and the yielding of the stenosis to gentle but continuous pressure of the esophagoscope.
Cicatricial types of postdiphtheritic stenosis may be seen as webs, annular cicatrices of funnel shape, or masses of fibrous tissue causing fixation of the arytenoids as well as encroachment on the glottic lumen.
Luetic cicatrices contract strongly, and are very resistant to treatment, so that esophagoscopic bouginage should be begun as early as possible after the healing of a luetic ulceration, in order to prevent stenosis.
In most cases the cicatrices are unmistakably conspicuous.
Tuberculosis, lues, scarlet fever, diphtheria, enteric fever and pyogenic conditions may produce ulceration followed by cicatricesof the esophagus.
The scars thus made have naught to do with the decorativecicatrices across the breast, before mentioned.
They cut the skin with flint or glass, and rub ashes or down into the open wounds in order that the cicatrices may be large and prominent.
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