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Definition of Conium
1. Noun. Small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Apiaceae, Carrot Family, Family Apiaceae, Family Umbelliferae, Umbelliferae
Member holonyms: California Fern, Conium Maculatum, Hemlock, Nebraska Fern, Poison Hemlock, Poison Parsley, Winter Fern
Definition of Conium
1. n. A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.
Definition of Conium
1. a poisonous herb [n -S]
Medical Definition of Conium
1. The dried unripe fruit of Conium maculatum (family Umbelliferae), also known as spotted cowbane or spotted parsley; it has been used as a sedative, antispasmodic, and anodyne. Synonym: hemlock. Origin: L. Fr. G. Koneion, hemlock (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conium
Literary usage of Conium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Druggist (1887)
"At the same time I planted the so- called German anise, but no conium germinated,
... The books speak of accidental admixture of conium fruit with anise, ..."
2. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"It is introduced here merely that it may be distinguished from conium maculatum,
... conium maculatum. ultimate segments ovate or lanceolate, deeply cut. ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1846)
"ON THE ASHES OF conium MACULATUM, &C. much discoloured, was not even made limpid,
far less was its property of forming the blue compound, with a solution of ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1838)
"... is large enough to cover the top of the finger, and corresponds in shape with
the fundus uteri.—Ibid. 18. Power of conium as a Narcotic. ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1870)
"ON COMMERCIAL EXTRACT AND FLUID EXTRACT OF conium. BY GEORGE FH MARKOE, OF BOSTON.
QUERY No. 6.—Are the Extract and Fluid Extract of conium of commerce as ..."
6. A handbook of therapeutics by Sydney Ringer (1882)
"THE statements of the physiological action of conium, made by various ...
conium exerts no influence on the unbroken skin, even when applied in large ..."
7. Materia Medica: For the Use of Students by John Barclay Biddle (1874)
"conium maculatura, or Hemlock (Nat. Ord. Apiaceae), is a biennial European plant,
naturalized in many parts of the United States. Its stem is erect, ..."
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