RHAMNUS
\ɹˈamnəs], \ɹˈamnəs], \ɹ_ˈa_m_n_ə_s]\
Definitions of RHAMNUS
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A genus of poisonous and rhamnaceous trees and shrubs commonly called buckthorn. The bark and fruit of its many species are commonly used as purgatives. The most common species are Rhamnus cathartica (purging buckthorn), Rhamnus frangula (alder buckthorn, a cathartic), and Rhamnus purshiana, the bark of which is the source of CASCARA and EMODIN. Karwinskia humboldtiana of the family Rhamnaceae, known also as tollidora, causes buckthorn polyneuropathy, an ascending paralysis resulting from the ingestion of Karwinskia fruit.
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By Thomas Davidson
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Sex. Syst. Pentandria Monogynia. The berries-Rhamni Baccae-have a faint and disagreeable odour; and bitterish, nauseous taste. Their juice- Rhamni Succus-is cathartic, and apt to excite griping, which must be obviated by the use of diluents.
By Robley Dunglison
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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