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FISTULA

Volume 4 · 73 words · 1778 Edition

in the ancient music, an instrument of the wind-kind, resembling our flute or flageolet.

The principal wind-instruments of the ancients, were the tibia and the fistula. But how they were constituted, wherein they differed, or how they were played upon, does not appear.

surgery, a deep, narrow, and callous ulcer, generally arising from abscesses.

It differs from a sinus, in its being callous, the latter not. See Surgery.

farriery. See Farriery, § xxxi.