Crossword-Solution: SANTONIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Santonin | n. | A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass. |
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| SANTONIN | anagram | ANNISTON |
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| white crystalline soluble substance extracted from the dried flower heads of santonica | 1 answer |
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Dermatological complaint
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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.
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CMEZAE
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eruption
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Sentences with SANTONIN (5)
These effects are probably due to a central excitation of a similar nature to that produced by santonin.
Osler, of Oxford, England, recommends as follows: Santonin in doses of two or three grains for an adult; one or two a day for three or four days, followed by salts or calomel; one-half to one grain for children in the same way.
Ritter's Santonin Remedy.-- I always give it thus: Santonin 1/10 grain Calomel 1/10 grain Give four a day for two days, then miss two days, then give again for two days and stop.
Douglass of Detroit, Michigan, recommends the following for a child five to ten years old: Santonin 12 grains Calomel 3 grains Divide into six powders, and give one night and morning while fasting.
Santonin in doses of one-tenth of a grain can be given for two days, three or four times a day, preceded by spiced syrup of rhubarb, one dram dose, and also followed by the rhubarb.