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Definition of Ergotic
1. Adjective. Relating to or produced by ergot.
Definition of Ergotic
1. a. Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot; as, ergotic acid.
Definition of Ergotic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ergotic
1. ergot [adj] - See also: ergot
Medical Definition of Ergotic
1. Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot; as, ergotic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ergotic
Literary usage of Ergotic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal (1829)
"ergotic bread used by nurses for four or five days dries up the secretion of milk.
It causes abortion after ten or fifteen days use of it. ..."
2. A Manual of materia medica and pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and by David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth (1906)
"The aqueous extract contains chiefly ergotic acid and ... Robert claims for ergot
only 3 constituents : ergotic acid, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1888)
"Drs. Langgaard and Kobert have thoroughly studied ergot of rye and its active
principles, and form the following conclusions: ergotic acid is a narcotic ..."
4. A Manual of organic materia medica by John Michael Maisch (1890)
"... entirely insoluble in ether, and is the chief active constituent of alcoholic
extracts of ergot. Aqueous extracts contain principally ergotic acid and ..."
5. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1854)
"Whether this is excited by the direct stimulus of an ergotic element carried in
the blood to the uterus, and thus acting immediately upon the uterine nerves ..."
6. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1854)
"A spasmodic contraction begins in the uterine muscular fibres. Whether this is
excited by the direct stimulus of an ergotic element earned in the ..."
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