RHEUM
\ɹˈuːm], \ɹˈuːm], \ɹ_ˈuː_m]\
Definitions of RHEUM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
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Rheum officinale (Baill.), R. palmatum (L.), and other species of Polygonaceae that contain chrysophanic acid, rhein, EMODIN, and other anthraquinones. The roots were formerly used as purgatives.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Any thin watery discharge from mucous membranes or skin; as the thin discharge from the air passages arising from cold.
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From Rha, now called Wolga, a river in Russia from which it was first brought. Ord. Polygonaceae. Sex. Syst. Enneandria Trigynia. The root-Rheum-is the part used in medicine. Its odour is aromatic, peculiar, and rather nauseous; taste, somewhat aromatic, subacrid, bitterish, and astringent. It colours the saliva and the urine yellow. It is easily pulverized, and forms a powder of a bright buff-yellow colour. Both water and spirit extract its virtues. Rhubarb root is purgative, stomachic and astringent. [?] It is chiefly used for the properties first mentioned. Externally, the powder is sometimes sprinkled over ulcers, to assist their granulation. In a smaller dose, it is stomachic. Numerous species of Rheum, Rh. palmotum, Rh. undulatum, and Rh. compactum, have purgative roots. The rhubarbs most used in the United States are the Chinese or India Rhubarb -Rheum Sinense seu Indicum; the Russian, Turkey or Bucharian Rhubarb-Rheum Russicum seu Turcicum; and European Rhubarb.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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