| bologna | 1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects. 2. A Bologna sausage. Bologna sausage [It. Salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. <chemical> Bologna stone, radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibres, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| materia medica | 1. Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine. 2. That branch of medical science which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases. Origin: L. See Matter, and Medical. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |