Ergot - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: ergotErgotic
Pertaining to or derived from ergot as ergotic acid...
Ergotized
Affected with the ergot fungus as ergotized rye...
Ecbolic
A drug as ergot which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus...
Ecboline
An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot so named from its power of producing abortion...
Ergot
A diseased condition of rye and other cereals in which the grains become black and often spur shaped It is caused by a parasitic fungus Claviceps purpurea...
Ergotin
An extract made from ergot...
Ergotine
A powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown amorphous bitter substance It is used to produce contraction of the uterus...
Ergotism
A logical deduction...
Raphany
A convulsive disease attended with ravenous hunger not uncommon in Sweden and Germany It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock Raphanus raphanistrum had been mixed but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism...
VerbarSclerotium
A hardened body formed by certain fungi as by the Claviceps purpurea which produces ergot...
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