from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
ICTUS ORBIS, med. jurisp. A maim, a bruise, or swelling; any hurt without
cutting the skin. When the skin is cut, the injury is called a wound. (q.v.)
Bract. lib. 2, tr. 2, c. 5 and 24.
2. Ictus is often used by medical authors in the sense of percussus. It
is applied to the pulsation of the arteries, to any external lesion of the
body produced by violence also to the wound inflicted by a scorpion or
venomous reptile. Orbis is used in the sense of circlo, circuit, rotundity.
It is applied also to the eye balls. Oculi dicuntur orbes. Castelli Lexicon
Medicum.