Aposchasis Aposchasmus

(From and to scarify). See Scarificatio.

Apositia Apositoi

(of from, and food). A loathing of food. Those who are averse to food. See Anorexia.

Apospasma

(From I tear off.) denotes a violent irregular fracture of a tendon, ligament, etc.

Aposphacelisis

(From from, and

a sphacelus'). A mortification of the flesh in wounds or fractures caused by too tight bandage.

Aposphagma

(From and jugulo).

According to Galen's interpretation of the sense in which Hippocrates used the term, it means the faeces ready for straining, or after they have been strained: and, according to Pliny, it is applicable to an animal whose blood, when its throat is cut, flows into a vessel placed underneath, and by different processes is formed into food.

Apospongismus

(From and to cleanse with a sponge). It is the using of a sponge either dry or moist for cleaning the skin, alleviating pains and itching, or for other purposes.

Apostagma Apostalagma

(From

to distil). The sweet liquor that distils from grapes before they are pressed.

Apostasis

(From to abscede). It is when a fragment of bone comes away by a fracture. It is the same as Abscessus; which sec. When a distemper passes off by some outlet, Hippocrates calls it an apostasis by excretion; when the morbific matter by its own weight falls and settles on any part, an apostasis by settlement; and when one disease turns to another, an apostasis metastasis. So Pliny calls the apostema.

Apostaxis

(From to distill from,) also staxis. Hippocrates use the word to express a small and insufficient distillation of blood from the nose. It means any distillation or defluxion of humours.

Apostema

(From to disjoin; or from ab, and sto, to stand). See Abscessus.

Apostematai

Those who, from an inward abscess, void pus downwards are thus called by Are-taeus.