cinchona in English
Malaria victims were treated with quinine, an extract from the bark of the cinchona tree.
Use "cinchona" in a sentence
1. -Alkaloids of cinchona and their derivatives; salts thereof:
2. Cinchonism refers to a syndrome caused by any of the cinchona alkaloids, including quinidine
3. Cinchonism is a pathological condition caused by an overdose of quinine or its natural source, cinchona bark
4. Cinchonism is a pathological condition caused by an overdose of cinchona bark or its alkaloids quinine and quinidine
5. Cinchonism a toxic condition owing to excessive use of cinchona and marked by headache, dizziness, and ringing in the ears
6. Cinchonism or quinism is a pathological condition in humans caused by an overdose of quinine or its natural source, cinchona bark
7. Cinchonism or quinism is a pathological condition in humans caused by an overdose of quinine or its natural source, cinchona bark
8. Cinchonism or quinism is a pathological condition in humans caused by an overdose of quinine or its natural source, cinchona bark
9. Cinchonism or quinism is a pathological condition in humans caused by an overdose of quinine or its natural source, cinchona bark
10. In the 17th century, cinchona came to Europe, and in 1820 two Parisian pharmacists extracted from it an alkaloid called quinine.
11. Quinine, a substance derived from the bark of cinchona trees, provides an example of the drawbacks of isolating the active compound from a medicinal plant.
12. Of Antiseptical ; A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona
13. The Catechu which is obtained in India from the Bonga differs from that obtained from the _Acacia Catechu_ and is a tonic analogous to rhatany and cinchona
14. A large number of plantations were abandoned , and much of the land under coffee almost all of it in Ceylonwas switched over to tea , rubber and cinchona cultivation .
15. Atabrine was to replace the original treatment used to fight malaria called quinine. Quinine was derived from the bark of cinchona trees and approximately 90% of its supply came from Java (an island in Indonesia)
16. Cinchonism — noun Date: 1857 a disorder due to excessive or prolonged use of cinchona or its alkaloids and marked by temporary deafness, ringing in the ears, headache, dizziness, and rash … New Collegiate Dictionary
17. Cinchonism or quinism is poisoning from an overdose of cinchona alkaloids.Cinchona bark is the source of quinine and quindine.Quinine is used to treat malaria.In small amounts it is used in tonic water to give a bitter flavor
18. Cinchonism, also known as quinism, is a term for a series of disease-like symptoms that result from an overdose of quinine, an alkaloid compound C 2 0H 24 N 2, that is derived from cinchona bark of the C
19. Definition of Cinchonism : a disorder due to excessive or prolonged use of cinchona or its alkaloids and marked by temporary deafness, ringing in the ears, headache, dizziness, and rash First Known Use of Cinchonism 1857, in the meaning defined above
20. Bedstraws are slender, sprawling herbs that have square stems (in cross-section) and they belong to the genus GALIUM.The genus Galium belongs to the family RUBIACEAE, which includes the Gardenias, Coffea (for coffee) and Cinchona (the bark of which yields quinine = Jesuits’ bark)
21. Atabrine was a synthetic version of quinine—derived from the bark of species of trees of the Cinchona genus—which became unavailable to the Allies following the Japanese occupation of Java and the Dutch East Indies, where the Dutch had produced almost 90 …