Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bitter yellow crystalline compound obtained from certain aloes and having laxative properties. Its use in laxatives was banned in the United States in 2002.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline bitter principle obtained from aloes in pale-yellow prismatic needles, grouped in stars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A bitter purgative principle in aloes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pharmacology A
glycoside derivative ofanthracene , found inaloe , that is used as alaxative .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[alo(e) + –in.]
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Examples
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The active principle in aloes is aloin; of jalap, jalapin; of white hellebore, veratria; and of colchicum, colchicin.
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Doan's Dinner Pills contain two drastic purgatives, podophyllin and aloin.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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The sap contained within each of the offsets of the aloe vera plant is rich in aloin and a number of rare minerals.
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(Koch A. "Investigations of the laxative action of aloin in the human colon."
Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34;Nutrition 2010
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