SANTONIN
\sˈantənˌɪn], \sˈantənˌɪn], \s_ˈa_n_t_ə_n_ˌɪ_n]\
Definitions of SANTONIN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.
By Oddity Software
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A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.
By Noah Webster.
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Anthelminic isolated from the dried unexpanded flower heads of Artemisia maritima and other species of Artemisia found principally in Russian and Chinese Turkestan and the Southern Ural region. (From Merck, 11th ed.)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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[Latin] A crystalline acid forming the active principle of santonica and used like the latter. It forms salts called Santoninates. Dose, 1-2 gr. (gm. 0.6-0.13); of Trochisci santonini, U.S., G.P. (trochiscus santonini, B.P.), 1-3; of Sodium santoninate, 2-8 gr. (gm. 0.13-0.50); of Calcium santoninate, 0.5-1.5 gr. (gm. 0.03-0.10). Atropine santoninate is used as a mydriatic.
By Alexander Duane
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Extract of santonica used as anthelmintic.
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland