ELATERIUM
\ɪlɐtˈi͡əɹɪəm], \ɪlɐtˈiəɹɪəm], \ɪ_l_ɐ_t_ˈiə_ɹ_ɪ__ə_m]\
Definitions of ELATERIUM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).
By Oddity Software
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A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).
By Noah Webster.
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Hydragogue cathartic obtained from the squirting cucumber.
By William R. Warner
By Robley Dunglison
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The sediments deposited from the juice of the fruit of the Ecballium Elaterium, or squirting cucumber, of Southern Europe and Western Asia. It contains a neutral crystalline principle, Elaterin (Elaterinum, U. S., B. P.). C20H28O5, and is a hydragogue cathartic, used as a powerful revulsive in cerebral congestion, and a prompt diuretic in dropsy, especially ascites. Dose, 0.07-0.15 gr. (gm. 0.004-0.009); of Elaterin, 0.03-0.08 gr. (gm. 0.002-0.005); of Trituratio elaterini, U. S., 0.5 gr. (gm. 0.03); of Pulvis elaterini compositus, B. P., gr. ss-5 (gm. 0.03-0.30).
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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