COPAIBA
\kəpˈe͡ɪbə], \kəpˈeɪbə], \k_ə_p_ˈeɪ_b_ə]\
Definitions of COPAIBA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
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ko-p[=a]'ba, n. a balsam obtained from an American tree, much used in medicine.--Also COPAI'VA. [Sp.,--Braz.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Its odour is peculiar, but not unpleasant; taste pungent, bitter; consistence, syrupy; colour yellowish, and transparent. It is soluble in alcohol, ether, and the expressed oils. S.g. 0.9.5.0. Its properties are stimulant and diuretic; in large doses it is purgative. It acts on the lining membrane of urethra, and on mucous membranes i general. Should sysmptoms of urticaria or diarrhoea arise, the dose is too large, and must be diminished. It can be inspissated by means of magnesia so as to be made into pills, and a plan has been devised for enveloping it in gelatin, so that its taste is entirely concealed. See Capsules, gelatinous.
By Robley Dunglison
By Sir Augustus Henry
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Resinous and diuretic juice of various trees, as Copaifera officinalis: used in gonorrhea and catarrhal diseases.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The oleoresin of various species of Copaifera, especially that of Copaifera officinalis, Copaifera guianensis, Copaifera coriacea, and Copaifera Langsdortfii. It has been in use as a stimulant of the mucous membranes for more than a century, and employed in gonorrhea in the subacute stage, gleet, leukorrhea, and chronic catarrhal affections of the bowels and lungs. Of the U. S. Ph. and Br. Ph., an oleoresin obtained from several species of copaiba.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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