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mallein (medicine) and tacamahac (iou)


mallein (medicine)


mallein


An allergin, analogous to tuberculin, made from the growth products of Pseudomonas mallei, the causative agent of glanders; used as a diagnostic agent to provoke reactions in animals affected with glanders.


tacamahac (iou)



tacamahac noun. . L16.
[Spanish tacamahaca (now tacamaca) from Aztec tecomahiyac.]
Orig., the aromatic resin of the gumbo-limbo, Bursera simaruba (family Burseraceae), used for incense. In later use, any of various similar resins obtained from Other W. Indian and S. American trees of the genus Bursera and the allied genus Protium, and from Indo-Malayan trees of the genus Calophyllum (family Guttiferae), etc., which were formerly used extensively in medicine. L16.
(The gum exuded from the buds of) any of the N. American balsam poplars, e.g. Populus balsamifera. M18.