Crossword-Solution: CANTHARIDIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cantharidin | n. | The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms. |
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| SPANISH fly irritant | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEZAME
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eruption
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Sentences with CANTHARIDIN (5)
Later on he comes across the alkaloids, such as strychnine, digitalin, cantharidin, and other terrible poisons of that class.
Cantharides owe their value to the presence of a peculiar chemical principle, to which the name _cantharidin_ has been given.
From about one-fourth to rather more than one-half per cent, of cantharidin has been obtained from different samples; and it has been ascertained that the elytra or wing-sheaths of the insect, which alone are used in pharmacy, contain more of the active principle than the soft parts taken together; but apparently cantharidin is most abundant in the eggs and generative organs.
The vescicating property is due to the presence in the blood plasma of a peculiar, volatile, crystalline substance known as _cantharidin_, which is especially abundant in the reproductive organs of the beetle.
Kobert states that the beetles are not poisonous to birds but that the flesh of birds which have fed on them is poisonous to man, and that if the flesh of chickens or frogs which have fed on the cantharidin be fed to cats it causes in them the same symptoms as does the cantharidin.