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Definition of Matico
1. n. A Peruvian plant (Piper, or Artanthe, elongatum), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent.
Definition of Matico
1. a Peruvian pepper shrub [n -S]
Medical Definition of Matico
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Matico
Literary usage of Matico
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of organic materia medica by John Michael Maisch (1890)
"... are not tessellated, rough, and hairy like true matico. FIG. 148. matico.—One-half
natural size. Constituents.—Volatile oil 2i per cent., pungent resin, ..."
2. Origin and History of All the Pharmacopeial Vegetable Drugs, Chemicals and by John Uri Lloyd (1921)
"matico (matico) Official from 1860 to 1900. Dropped in 1910. ... In the beginning
of the 19th century matico came to the profession of medicine in North ..."
3. A Guide to therapeutics and materia medica by Robert Farquharson, Frank Woodbury (1882)
"matico is only used externally as a local application for the arrest of ...
[In the form of the fluid extract, matico has been highly recommended in ..."
4. Materia Medica and Therapeutics for Physicians and Students by John Barclay Biddle, Clement Biddle (1895)
"matico. DESCRIPTION, HABITAT AND PROPERTIES.—This name is given to the LEAVES
... matico is a pleasant aromatic tonic, with a special determination to the ..."
5. Organic materia medica: Including the Standard Remedies of the Leading by Parke, Davis & Company, Davis & Company Parke (1888)
"matico-Continued. It has been used with advantage in leucorrhoea, ... Oleoresin
Cubeb, 3 minima Oil Sandal, East India, 3 minima Copaiba and matico. ..."
6. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1844)
"THERAPEUTIC PROPERTIES or matico. By Dr. HUNTER LAKE. The leaves of a tree called
matico, growing wild in Peru, described by Dr. Martius, in the Pharm. ..."
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