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belladonna tincture (medicine) and crassula (iou)


belladonna tincture (medicine)


belladonna tincture


A green hydroalcoholic Mobile liquid containing the alkaloids atropine and scopolamine and Other substances extracted from the leaves of Atropa belladonna, the botanical source for these anticholinergic drugs. The tincture allows for gradual titration of dose by counting drops of the preparation ingested. Formerly widely used in ulcer therapy or the symptomatic treatment of diarrhoea, alone or in combination with antacids and insoluble clays.


crassula (iou)



crassula noun. , -las. LME.
[medieval Latin, dim. of Latin crassus thick: see -ULE.]
Orig., any of certain kinds of stonecrop, esp. orpine, Sedum telephium. Now, any of numerous succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs constituting the related, chiefly southern African, genus Crassula, some of which are grown as house-plants. LME.
Botany. A thickening between the pits of gymnosperm tracheids, made up of primary wall and intercellular material. M20.