Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine and pharmacy, the green liquid alcoholic extract of parsley-seeds used as an emmenagogue and antiperiodic.
- noun An organic substance, forming long, white, brittle, needle-like crystals, extracted by distilling parsley-seeds with water. It melts at 86° F., and boils at about 572° F. It is used as an emmenagogue. Also called
parsley-camphor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An oily liquid derived from parsley.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry A particular
aromatic compound found inparsley
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Examples
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Likewise the fruit furnishes the same volatile oil in larger abundance, this oil comprising parsley-camphor, and "apiol," the true essential oil of parsley, which may be now had from all leading druggists.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Not, however, until recently has it been learnt that the sweet-smelling plant yields what chemists call "apiol," or
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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If too large a dose of apiol be taken it will cause headache, giddiness, staggering, and deafness; and if going still further, it will induce epileptiform convulsions.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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