CAMPHOR
\kˈamfə], \kˈamfə], \k_ˈa_m_f_ə]\
Definitions of CAMPHOR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 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 Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; - called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol.
By Oddity Software
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A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; - called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol.
By Noah Webster.
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A bicyclic monoterpene ketone found widely in plant (primarily the camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora). Natural camphor is used topically as a skin antipruritic and as an anti-infective agent.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A whitish substance which wastes away on exposure to the air, obtained from various trees and plants of eastern Asia.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. A solid, tough, crystalline, translucent substance, a ketone distilled from the bark and wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree of Southeastern Asia and the adjoining islands; see camphora. 2. Any stearoptene resembling this.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A stearopten, volatile oil; antispasmodic; anodyne.
By William R. Warner
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The white, solid juice of the laurel-tree of India, China, and Japan, having a bitterish taste and a pleasant smell.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A whitish solid semi-translucent substance, procured chiefly from the camphor laurel of Eastern Asia, with a bitterish taste and a fragrant smell, and of use in medicine.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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From Arab. Ca'phur or Kam'phur, Cam'phora, Caphura, Caffa, Caf, Cafur, Caphora, Altafor, Camphire, (F.) Camphire. A concrete substance, prepared, by distillation, from Lauras Cam'phora, Per'sea Cam,'fora, Camphora officinarum, an indigenous tree of the East Indies. Order, Laurineae. Its odour is strong and fragrant: it is volatile, not easily pulverizable; texture crystalline. Soluble in alcohol, ether, oils, vinegar, and slightly so in water. Its properties are narcotic, diaphoretic, and sedative. Dose, gr. v to Ej. Dissolved in oil or alcohol, it is applied externally in rheumatic pains, bruises, sprains, &c.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Stearopten, C10-H16O, obtained from the wood of Cinnamonum camphora by distillation with water. It is stimulant, antispasmodic, and anodyne. Taken in excess, it acts as an irritant poison, producing epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting, maniacal delirium, and convulsions.
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A name applied to a series of solid, volatile principles obtained by distillation from vegetable substances, having the constitution of oxygenated hydrocarbons and in many ways acting as alcohols. List of poisons and their antidotes, see in appendix, page 938.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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