colchicum
Noun
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Noun
colchicum
- (countable) Any of several flowers of the genus Colchicum.
- (uncountable, medicine) The dried seed of the poisonous meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale, used medicinally.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 87:
- Book VI deals with surgery, including an account of tracheotomy, and a final long book is taken up with drugs, including the use of colchicum for gout.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 87:
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