Definition of Rhizoma

1. n. SAme as Rhizome.

Definition of Rhizoma

1. rhizome [n -MATA] - See also: rhizome

Medical Definition of Rhizoma

1. Same as rhizome. (23 Aug 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhizoma

rhizocephala
rhizoctinia
rhizoctinia disease
rhizoctonia
rhizoctonias
rhizodermis
rhizodont
rhizodonts
rhizogan
rhizogen
rhizogens
rhizoid
rhizoidal
rhizoids
rhizolite
rhizoma (current term)
rhizomania
rhizomata
rhizomatic
rhizomatics
rhizomatous
rhizomatous begonia
rhizomatously
rhizome
rhizome chaff
rhizome cutting
rhizomelia
rhizomelic
rhizomeningomyelitis
rhizomes

Literary usage of Rhizoma

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

1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1867)
"To determine how far this objection is grounded on any deficiency of strength in the fibres as compared with the rhizoma, the following experiments were ..."

2. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"THE rhizoma of Pteris aquilina, which abounds in starch and mucilage, is sometimes used in Europe and Siberia to make a coarse kind of bread. ..."

3. The Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1853)
"... which have still greater powers of vitality, as they contain a copious store of food for the development of the buds they bear. The name of 174. rhizoma ..."

4. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"rhizoma. — These horizontally running, root-like, subterranean stems are strikingly responsive to gravity, as ELFVING ('80), especially, has shown. ..."

5. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"rhizoma GRAMINIS. Radix Graminis; Couch Grans, ... In rhizoma Graminis, the outer part of the tissue exhibits a diffuse circle of about 20 liber bundles, ..."

6. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1879)
"... or rhizoma, in its simplest form, is merely a creeping stem or branch (86) growing beneath the surface of the soil, or partly covered by it. ..."

7. Tʻoung pao by Demiéville, Paul, Jan Julius Lodewijk Duyvendak, Henri Cordier, Paul Pelliot, Edouard Chavannes, Gustaaf Schlegel (1890)
"The midwifes in China administrate a mixture of this rhizoma with borax to ... [10] rhizoma ALPINI.«. Ifl- ^f- Sia kan. According to PORTER SMITH (1. cp ..."

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