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cinchona(dictionary)
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cinchona alkaloids(medicine)
cinchona bark(medicine)

cinchona (iou)



cinchona noun. . M18.
[mod. Latin, from Countess of Chinchon (d. 1641), vicereine of Peru, who introduced the drug to Spain.]
An evergreen tree or shrub of the S. American genus Cinchona, of the madder family, with fragrant flowers. M18.
= cinchona bark below. Also, a drug made from cinchona bark. L18.
Comb.: cinchona bark the dried bark of a cinchona (as a source of quinine and other medicinal alkaloids).
cinchonicine,
cinchonidine nouns cinchona alkaloids isomeric with cinchonine M19.
cinchonine noun an alkaloid, C19H22ON2, with febrifuge properties, found with quinine in cinchona bark E19.
cinchonism noun poisoning due to excessive ingestion of cinchona alkaloids M19.