ergot in English

noun
1
a fungal disease of rye and other cereals in which black, elongated, fruiting bodies grow in the ears of the cereal. Eating contaminated food can result in ergotism.
One of the first recorded attacks was in the seventh century BC when the Assyrians used a fungal disease called ergot to poison water supplies.
2
a small, horny protuberance on the back of each of a horse's fetlocks.
I have chosen to write about the evolution of the horse's chestnut as well as the ergot .

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1. A modified procedure is described for the isolation of secalonic acid from ergot.

2. Ropinirole is a non-ergot-selective D2 dopamine agonist.

3. Mold could be responsible for ergot poisoning, which could explain the contractures.

4. Two common Alkaloids examined for in ergot are ergotamine and ergovaline.

5. Ergotamine is in a group of drugs called ergot Alkaloids (ER-got AL-ka-loids)

6. Aspergillus tamarii Kita. isolated from seeds of Paspalum scrobiculatum L. is found to produce ergot alkaloids in submerged culture.

7. No interaction study has been performed with antibiotics, ergot alkaloids, and anti-hypertensive agents other than labetalol

8. It was originally made from the rye ergot fungus but can also be made from lysergic acid.

9. He was a taxonomist who developed the first workable method of classifyinBritish pharmacologist who isolated acetylcholine from the ergot fungus.

10. However i think the effect of ergot was widely known, and people would generally have recognised a severe delirious state in Accusants

11. We learn more about chloracne, Viktor Yushchenko, and dioxin poisoning in 2004, and about the possible role of ergot poisoning from infected rye crops in the Salem Bewitchings in 1691

12. Ergot Alkaloids are a large group of compounds produced by fungi that attack a wide variety of grass species, including small grains, during the growing season

13. Ergot also had a history of medical use—as a labor-inducing drug that, according to one nineteenth-century physician, “expedites lingering parturition and saves to the Accoucheur a considerable portion of time.”