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Redundant (medicine) and cubeb (medicine)


Redundant (medicine)


redundant


1. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or Food. "Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh." (Arbuthnot)

2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. "Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched." (I. Watts)

Synonym: Superfluous, superabundant, excessive, exuberant, overflowing, plentiful, copious.

Origin: L. Redundans, -antis, p. Pr. Of redundare: cf. F. Redondant. See Redound.

Source: Websters Dictionary


cubeb (medicine)


cubeb


The dried unripe, nearly full-grown fruit of Piper cubeba (family Piperaceae), a climbing plant of the West Indies, used as stimulant, carminative, and local irritant; cubeb oil has been used as a mild urinary antiseptic.

Origin: Ar. And Hindu, kababa