Crossword-Solution: ERGOT 5 letters, 152 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Ergot n. A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the
grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic
fungus, Claviceps purpurea.
Ergot n. The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye
and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous
poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest
bleeding.
Ergot n. A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut,
situated behind and below the pastern joint.
Ergot n. See 2d Calcar, 3 (b).

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Word Anagrams
ERGOT anagram ETROG, GROTE, ORGET, REGOT, ROGET, TREGO

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Fungus infecting rye, historically linked to hallucinations 1 answer
A fungus. 1 answer
BLACK fungus 1 answer
Bane of cereal grain 1 answer
Bane of grain 1 answer
Bane of rye crops 1 answer
Cereal blight 1 answer
Cereal disorder 1 answer
Cereal eater? 1 answer
Cereal fungus 1 answer
Cereal grain killer 1 answer
Cereal grass disease 1 answer
Cereal grass fungus 1 answer
Cereal grass parasite 1 answer
Cereal killer 1 answer
Cereal plant disease 1 answer
Cereal woe 1 answer
Cereal-eating fungi 1 answer
Concern for wheat farmers 1 answer
Corn problem 1 answer
Crop fungus 1 answer
Crop-menacing fungus 1 answer
DARK-violet hardened mycelium of the fungus 1 answer
Dangerous rye fungus 1 answer
Disease agent that's the main ingredient of LSD 1 answer
Disease of cereal grasses 1 answer
Disease of cereals 1 answer
Disease of rye 1 answer
Drug from a fungus. 1 answer
FUNGUS growing on rye, drug obtained from 1 answer
FUNGUS, black 1 answer
Field fungus 1 answer
Fungal disease of cereals 1 answer
Fungal disease of rye 1 answer
Fungal grain disease 1 answer
Fungal rye disease 1 answer
Fungous disease of cereals. 1 answer
Fungous disease of wheat. 1 answer
Fungous growth on cereals 1 answer
Fungus disease of rye 1 answer
Fungus growth on cereal grains. 1 answer
Fungus growth on cereal plant. 1 answer
Fungus of grain 1 answer
Fungus on rye plants. 1 answer
Fungus that affects cereal 1 answer
Fungus that affects rye 1 answer
Fungus that attacks grains 1 answer
Fungus that can affect wheat crops 1 answer
Fungus that can attack corn 1 answer
Fungus used in medicine. 1 answer
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One who, or that which, eats.
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There is a case mentioned in which an accident and an inopportune dose of ergot at the fifth month of pregnancy were followed by rupture of the amniotic sac, and subsequently a constant flow of watery fluid continued for the remaining three months of pregnancy.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
Wood also mentions a species of ergotism characterized by epileptic paroxysms, which he calls "spasmodic ergotism." Prentiss mentions a brunette of forty-two, under the influence of ergot, who exhibited a peculiar depression of spirits with hysteric phenomena, although deriving much benefit from the administration of the drug from the hemorrhage caused by uterine fibroids.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
After taking ergot for three days she felt like crying all the time, became irritable, and stayed in bed, being all day in tears.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
After a course of careful treatment, in which diet, sponging, application of ice-bags, and ergot were features, this unfortunate man recovered.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
Tenderness and hyperesthesia over the spinous processes of the 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical vertebrae led to the application of the thermocautery, which, in conjunction with the administration of ergot and bromide, was attended with marked benefit, though not by complete cure.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 200 times in crossword archives (1942–2022).