Category: T
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Tonic (nutritive)
An agent that restores nutrition to the body.
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Typhoid
Acute infectious disease caused by Salmonella typhii and char acterised by fever, severe physical and mental depression, diarrhoea and headache. An infection of the intestine caused by Salmonella typhi in food and water.
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Tympanites
Abnormal distention due to the presence of gas or air in the intestine or the peritoneal cavity. The expansion of the stomach with gas. Distension of the abdomen with air or gas: the abdomen is resonant (drum-like) on percussion. Causes include intestinal obstruction, irritable bowel syndrome, and aerophagia. Severe swelling of the abdomen caused by…
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Teratogenic
An agent that that causes physical defects in the developing embryo. A substance that causes abnormal growth in an embryo. Damage to the fetus. Having the tendency to produce physical disorders in an embryo or fetus. Relating to the production of physical disorders in an embryo or fetus. Affecting the development of a fetus, as…
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Taenifuge
An agent that expels tapeworms. Substance which is capable of killing and causing the expulsion of Taenia (tapeworms).
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Taeniasis
Infestation of the intestines with tapeworms. An infestation with tapeworms of the genus Taenia. Man becomes infected with the adult worms following ingestion of raw or undercooked meat containing the larval stage of the parasite. The presence of a worm in the intestine may occasionally give rise to increased appetite, hunger pains, weakness, and weight…
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Tutti-frutti
The Italian phrase tutti-frutti means all fruits, a name that describes ice cream flavoured with a mixture of cherries, raisins, pistachios, and so on. The Italian frutti is obviously closely related to the English fruit, just as tuti derives from the same Latin source as the English total. That Latin source—totus, meaning all—also developed into…
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Turnip
From the eighth to the sixteenth century in England, and even today in Scotland, turnips were called neeps, a word deriving from the Latin name of the vegetable, napus. In the sixteenth century, for some unknown reason, this name came to be seen as inadequate and therefore neep was compounded with another word to form…
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Turk’s-head
Some cakes are so large that it is hard to bake their centres without burning their surfaces; accordingly, a round pan with a vertical cone in its middle is used to prevent the cake from even having a centre. In the late nineteenth century, the shape of this baking pan apparently reminded someone of a…
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Turkey
Both the English and French names for the large fowl known as the turkey are the result of mistaken assumptions. The French name, dinde, literally means from India, because the Spanish conquistadors who returned from North America with the bird were under the impression that they were in India when they discovered and named it.…