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Definition of Arnica
1. Noun. Used especially in treating bruises.
2. Noun. Any of various rhizomatous usually perennial plants of the genus Arnica.
3. Noun. An ointment used in treating bruises.
Definition of Arnica
1. n. A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant.
Definition of Arnica
1. Noun. Any of several plants, of the genus ''Arnica'', related to the sunflowers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Arnica
1. a perennial herb [n -S]
Medical Definition of Arnica
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Arnica
Literary usage of Arnica
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Compend of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing, with by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1903)
"arnica is the plant arnica montana, the Leopard's Bane, a perennial of the
Composite order growing in mountainous districts throughout the northern ..."
2. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanbury (1879)
"Botanical Origin—arnica montana L., a perennial plant growing in meadows throughout
the northern and central regions of the northern hemisphere, ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner Von Marilaun (1902)
"Autogamy effected by means of an inflection of the style-branches. !, s, * Flowers
of arnica montana in successive stages leading to autogamy. ..."
4. Transactions by Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York (1884)
"It may be presumed that arnica has been so rarely used in erysipelas because the
erysipelatous producing power has been attributed to an insect infesting ..."
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