Definition of Cannabinol

1. Noun. (organic compound) A psychoactive cannabinoid found in the hemp plant ''Cannabis sativa''. It is an oxidation product of (THC). ¹

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Definition of Cannabinol

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Cannabinol

1. A physiologically inactive constituent of cannabis sativa l. Chemical name: 6H-Dibenzo(b,d)pyran-1-ol, 6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl- (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannabinol

cankles
canlike
cann
cann't
canna
canna lily
cannabene
cannabic
cannabidiol
cannabidiolic acid synthase
cannabin
cannabine
cannabinoid
cannabinoid receptor
cannabinoids
cannabinol (current term)
cannabinols
cannabinomimetic
cannabins
cannabipiperidiethanone
cannabis
cannabis resin
cannabises
cannabislike
cannabism
cannach
cannachs
cannakin
cannas

Literary usage of Cannabinol

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1898)
"The pure products isolated by Messrs Easterfield and Wood were passed on to me for pharmacological investigation. They included the resin cannabinol, ..."

2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1898)
"Most of the samples of cannabinol examined have yielded about ao per cent of the crystalline acetyl compound, together with an oily acetyl derivative ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1904)
"This is cannabinol, a pale-yellow syrupy liquid, which becomes discolored by exposure to air. It produces intoxication when administered to dogs by the ..."

4. The Chemistry and Analysis of Drugs and Medicines by Henry Corbin Fuller (1920)
"cannabinol appears to be the substance which gives the drug its peculiar active ... Solutions of cannabinol in glacial acetic acid have a characteristic ..."

5. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"They contain resinous constituents (cannabinol) which produce a peculiar psychic ... The active ingredient is a resin, cannabinol (Fraenkel, 1903), ..."

6. Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Horatio Charles Wood (1916)
"Fraenkel asserts that the cannabinol of Wood, Spivey, and Easterfield is inert, and should be known as pseudo-cannabinol, the name cannabinol being retained ..."

7. A Text-book of pharmacology and some allied sciences: (therapeutics, Materia by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1906)
"(not identical with the commercial "cannabinol"). ... Hemp grown in Western countries is generally devoid of cannabinol, and is inactive. ..."

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