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A box or case, Capsa, Pyxis. An apparatus for the reception of any matters which it may be desirable to preserve. In Surgery and Anatomy, Boites d dissection, B. d amputation, B. a trepan, B. a cataracte, &c., mean the cases containing these various instruments. Boite du Crane is the bony case which receives the brain. Boite is, also, the portion of the stem of the trephine which receives the pyramid or centre-pin. Boite de Petit is a machine, invented by M. Petit, to retain the fractured portions of bone in apposition, when the leg has been fractured in a complicated manner. Boite is, also, a kind of case put before an artificial anus to receive the faeces, which are continually being discharged. The vulgar, in France, give the name Boite, to various articulations,-B. de genou, B. de la hanche; "knee-joint, hip-joint."