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Definition of Emodin
1. n. An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).
Definition of Emodin
1. Noun. (organic compound) A purgative resin, 6-methyl-1,3,8-trihydroxyanthraquinone, obtained from some rhubarbs and other plants. ¹
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Definition of Emodin
1. a chemical compound [n -S]
Medical Definition of Emodin
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Emodin
Literary usage of Emodin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"This author claims that emodin is not the main active constituent! ... '>i an
emodin identical with that of cascara (Beal and Okey, 1919). ..."
2. The Natural Organic Colouring Matters by Arthur George Perkin, Arthur Ernest Everest (1918)
"According to Oesterle and Johann this emodin methyl ether is identical ...
Aloe-emodin appears to have been first isolated from rhubarb by Hesse (Pharm. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"... by shaking 1 About 3 or 4 parts of the former to 1 of the Intter. its chloroform
solution with sodium carbonate traces of emodin are removed, ..."
4. Therapeutics: its principles and practice by Horatio C. Wood (1906)
"Such compounds are usually glucosides. Of these compounds attention has been
recently especially drawn by Tschirch to emodin ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1904)
"This was stated to be a glucoside, yielding on hydrolysis emodin, and a sugar which
... Thorpe and Miller also found emodin in frangula bark, in addition to ..."
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