Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless crystalline compound, C15H18O3, obtained from species of wormwood, especially santonica, and formerly used as an anthelmintic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bitter substance (C15H18O3), the active principle of santonica, or wormseed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) 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.
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- noun chemistry An
anthelmintic found in santonica and related plants.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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NIGAM, M.C. and RAO, P.R. (1967) Simultaneous production of essential oil and santonin from Artemisia sp.
Chapter 5 1953
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Cairo: Egyptian Pharmaceutical Society, 738 pp. MALIK, A. and DUBASH, M.E. (1979) Estimation of santonin in Artemisia and its extraction.
Chapter 5 1953
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Epsom salts, powdered areca nut and santonin are the remedies commonly recommended for the treatment of intestinal worms.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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Both the areca nut and santonin may be given with the feed.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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Thus, observation shows that poisoning by rose-santonin (that well-known worm remedy to which children are so abnormally sensitive) causes a long-enduring, bitter taste; sub-cutaneous morphine poisoning causes illusory bitter and sour tastes.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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These effects are probably due to a central excitation of a similar nature to that produced by santonin.
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These effects are probably due to a central excitation of a similar nature to that produced by santonin.
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As santonin is almost entirely tasteless, if not combined with other medicines which are unpalatable, no difficulty will be experienced in administering it to children.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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(santonin makes it red; rhubarb or senna, brown; tar or carbolic acid, green).
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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