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Medical Plants Glossary: 



 

Maceration:

The process of putting in contact for some time a plant, or part thereof with a liquid solvent, so that any plant's medicinal substances pass into the liquid. This involves severing the plant first, to be in closer contact with the liquid.

Mata:

Partially lignified low shrub size, which lacks the main stem.

Medical:

Individual who, after a proper university education, receiving a bachelor status for medical professional to be able to diagnose diseases.

Medication:

Material is any substance which, either administered to the body and under certain actions do not always fully known, preserves, heals or relieves a disease.

Medicinal wine:

It is a solution of a medicinal wine. Today it is practically obsolete.

Medicine:

Science of diagnosis and treatment of illness and the preservation of health.

Menopause:

Period in women between 45 and 55 years in which the menses cease.

Meteorism:

Presence of gas in the stomach or intestine.

Migraine:

Headache, which usually affects one side of it, and that is often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia, and other annoyances.

Miotic:

Produced contraction of the pupils.

Mold:

Fungus that develops on decaying organic matter.

Mouthwash:

Liquid medication intended to act in the oral cavity.

Mucolítico:

A substance that breaks down the structure of the mucus, making it more liquid and therefore more easily coughed up.

Mutualism:

Association between two individuals or populations of different species, both benefit from this relationship. Many times these two species are unable to live separately.

Myalgia:

Pain in one or more muscles.

Mycology:

Science and study of fungi.

Mydriatic:

That dilates the pupil.


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