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cinchona(medicine)
cinchona(dictionary)
cinchona(encyclopedia)
cinchona bark(medicine)
cinchona alkaloids(medicine)
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homobiotin (medicine) and cinchona (medicine)


homobiotin (medicine)


homobiotin


A compound resembling biotin except for the substitution of an oxygen atom for the sulfur and the presence of an additional CH2 group in the side chain; an active biotin antagonist.


cinchona (medicine)


cinchona


A genus of rubiaceous south american trees that yields the toxic cinchona alkaloids from their bark; quinine, quinidine, chinconine, cinchonidine and others are used to treat malaria and cardiac arrhythmias.