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A Chymical Dictionary
Gerhard Dorn and John French · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordA particular part of the diaphragm.
- In the bookCohos gives a comprehensive term for what the skin contains, whereas Coostrum points to one bodily location.
- A place to readThe historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 17; facsimile PDF page 345.
Historical definition
Coostrum is the middle part of the diaphragm.
Meaning
The gloss is anatomical and narrowly locational: it specifies a middle part. It gives no further division of that structure and attributes no separate function to it. The headword should therefore be kept at the scope of the original description.
Use in the book
Cohos gives a comprehensive term for what the skin contains, whereas Coostrum points to one bodily location. The contrast illustrates how the dictionary moves between whole-body vocabulary and names for parts. No additional bodily identification can be recovered from the similarity of the two words alone.
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Source note
Historical source. 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 17; facsimile PDF page 345 — Facsimile