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Definition of Hamamelis
1. Noun. Deciduous shrubs or small trees: witch hazel.
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Family Hamamelidaceae, Hamamelidaceae, Witch-hazel Family
Member holonyms: Witch Hazel, Witch Hazel Plant, Wych Hazel, Wych Hazel Plant
Definition of Hamamelis
1. n. A genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally.
Definition of Hamamelis
1. Noun. (botany) Any of the flowering plant genus ''Hamamelis'', the witch hazels. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Hamamelis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hamamelis
Literary usage of Hamamelis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1886)
"hamamelis in Pro static Disease and Buccal Cancer. —Dr. Duncan Mackenzie, of
Glossop, says:—Two cases that have recently come under my care seem to me ..."
2. A Manual of pharmacodynamics by Richard Hughes (1899)
"hamamelis has long had a popular reputation in America, and is the basis of ...
Dr. Preston was naturally led to use hamamelis as a remedy for haemorrhages. ..."
3. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1880)
"hamamelis, four drops of the tincture to half a tumbler of water. ... I have
never used the hamamelis successfully jn cases of blood-spitting when the blood ..."
4. The Microanalysis of Powdered Vegetable Drugs by Albert Schneider (1921)
"The cell fragments turn blue in the presence of copper—a delicate copper test.
107. (Fig. 110.) hamamelis. hamamelis. Fl. ex. 30. Witch-hazel, E. hamamelis, ..."
5. A Practical treatise on materia medica and therapeutics by John Vietch Shoemaker (1908)
"The British Pharmacopoeia directs "the dried bark of hamamelis virginiana," ...
1 See papers by the author on "hamamelis Virginica," read before the British ..."
6. Leaders in Homœopathic Therapeutics by Eugene Beauharnais Nash (1899)
"hamamelis VIRGINICA Is another remedy having the symptom " soreness as if ...
This soreness is sometimes found in rheumatism, and hamamelis has cured when ..."
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