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Dictionary of Manipuri Medical Terms (Manipuri-English)

হীদাক থকপা
(Heedak thakpa) : 1) Medication = see heedak chaba, 2)Smoking by pipe = the act of smoking by pipe like hooka and allied / akin means / devices excepting cigar cigrette and akin sticks.

হীদাক শেম্বা
(Heedak Shemba) : Preparation of drug or medicine = synthesis and preparing compounds and mixtures, impregnation,etc. of substances, matters,etc.to form a preparation which has the medical or therapeutic property(ies) and characteristics.

হীদাক থাবা
(Heedak Thaba) : Medication = method of treatment by giving drug / medicine to patient. Premedication = drug given to patient before a surgical operation. 1)Treatment with medicine / drug = prescribing a medicine / drug to patient for his medical purpose.

হীদাক শঙ
(Heedak-Shang) : Dispensary = a place where medicines are made up by a pharmacist according to the doctor`s prescription and dispensed to patient. A dispensary is often part of out- patient department in a hospitals. See `Daktar Khana` also.

হীদাক য়োনফম (দুকান)
{Heedak Yonpham(Dukan)} : Pharmacy = 1)see `Heedak Shang`. 2) Premises registered to dispense medicines and sells poisons.

হুমাং
(Humang) : Sweat or perspiration or sudor = the watery fluid secreted by the sweat glands.Its principal constituents in solution are sodium chloride and urea. The secretion of sweat is a means of excreting nitrogens waste; at the sametime it has a role in controlling the temperature of the body -the evaporation of sweat from the surface of the skin has a cooling effect. Therefore an increase in the body temperature causes an increase in sweat. Other factors that increase in secretion of sweat include pain,nausea,nervousness and drugs. Sweating is reduced by colds, diarrhoea and certain drugs. Sweat gland = a simple coiled tubular exocrine glan(glands such as liver, the sweat glands,the pancrease and the salivery glands)that lies in the dermis of the skin. A long duct carries its secretion (sweat) to the surface of the skin. Sweat glands occur over most of the surface of the body; they are particular in the armpit, on the soles of the feet and plams of the hands and on the forehead or sudoriferous glands. The sweat contains salty water, lactic acid, urea and potassium salts and secretes through the pores on the surface of the skin formed by hair follicies.

হূ
(Hoo) : Poison = a substance that when taken into the body (by swallowing and indigesting, by inhaling or absorption or by injection) damages or destroys tissue or hinders or prevents the functioning of body mechanisms. Piosons injected into the body by reptiles and arachnids(including scorpion) is called venum. The commonest poison of which even a small amount can kill, are arsenic, cyanide and strychine. Many common foods and drinks and drugs / medicines can be poisonous if taken in large does. Common household materials such as bleach, glue, insecticides can also be poisonous.see` Lingee Mahoo`.

হূ-ওইহনবা
(Hoo-Oihanba) : Envenom = the act of tainting a thing into venum or poison or putrefaction or contamination of a / any thing into poison.

হু ওনহনবা
(Hoo- Onhanba) : Envenom = see `Hoo-Oinba`.

হূ হাপ্পা
(Hoo-Happa) : Poisoning = the act of administering poison or the condition where poison is made to render / affect someone to fall ill or to kill by the poisonous substance which is envenomed the food, etc. of the victim. See`Hoo Oihanba`.


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