cantharidin in English

noun

bitter-tasting crystalline which is the toxic active compound of the Spanish fly; anhydride of cantharic acid

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1. Cantharidin constitutes from z to r% of Cantharides.

2. Cantharides, or cantharidin, consists of the broken dried remains of the blister beetle (q.v.) Lytta vesicatoria

3. The epidermal changes induced by cantharidin and pemphigus-acantholysis are based on fundamentally different pathogenetic mechanisms and, therefore, not comparable.

4. Cantharidin (CTD) is the main bioactive component of Cantharides, which is called Banmao in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

5. Cantharides owe their value to the presence of a peculiar chemical principle, to which the name cantharidin has been given

6. Spanish fly [64], also known as Cantharides, is the dried blistering beetle (Cantharis vesicatoria and related species), which contains cantharidin as a major active constituent

7. It is concluded that, in contrast to a widely accepted view, the epidermal alterations induced by cantharidin do not represent true acantholysis and are, therefore, not suited to serve as experimental model for studies on acantholytic disease processes.

8. In aphrodisiac These are, principally, Cantharides and yohimbine, both of which stimulate sexual arousal by irritating the urinary tract when excreted. Cantharides, or cantharidin, consists of the broken dried remains of the blister beetle (q.v.) Lytta vesicatoria

9. 2 Cantharides plural in form but singular or plural in construction : a preparation of dried beetles and especially Spanish flies that contains cantharidin and is used in medicine as a blister-producing agent and formerly as an aphrodisiac — called also Spanish fly

10. Blister beetle, (family Meloidae), any of approximately 2,500 species of Beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that secrete an irritating substance, cantharidin, which is collected mainly from Mylabris and the European species Lytta vesicatoria, commonly called Spanish fly.Cantharidin is used medically as a topical skin irritant to remove warts