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Definition of Nux vomica
1. Noun. A medicine made from the seeds of an Asiatic tree; contains strychnine and brucine; formerly used as a stimulant.
Definition of Nux vomica
1. Noun. The strychnine tree, ''Strychnos nux-vomica'', an evergreen tree found in southeastern Asia. ¹
2. Noun. The fruit of ''Strychnos nux-vomica'', which contains strychnine and brucine. ¹
3. Noun. A preparation made from the fruit of ''Strychnos nux-vomica'', traditionally used as a stimulant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Nux vomica
1. The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons. Origin: NL, fr. L. Nux nut + vomere to vomit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nux Vomica
Literary usage of Nux vomica
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"The Assay of nux vomica and Its Preparations. ... The standard for nux vomica is
not less than 1.25% of strychnine as determined by the above method. ..."
2. Masterpieces of Murder: An Edmund Pearson True Crime Reader by Edmund Lester Pearson, Gerald Gross (1876)
"This is the Strychnos nux vomica, a tree from which is obtained the button-shaped
seeds known as nux vomica, and from which are prepared the ..."
3. Laboratory Manual for the Detection of Poisons and Powerful Drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth, William Homer Warren (1915)
"In Extract of nux vomica.—Dissolve 1 gram of extract in an Erlenmeyer ...
The alkaloids in 0.666 gram of nux vomica extract were in this volume of solvent. ..."
4. On Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1859)
"It was discovered in 1818, in the seed of nux vomica, by Pelletier and Caventou.
It is peculiar to plants or seeds grown in tropical climates, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1833)
"... obtained from the nux vomica two new acids. One of them exists in combination
with lime, with which it forms a very soluble salt, which may be purified ..."
6. A Manual of medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1880)
"At a variable interval after taking either nux vomica or ... In some cases of
poisoning by nux vomica, the jaw has been fixed by muscular spasm ; but, ..."
7. A Treatise on Poisons: In Relation to Medical Jurisprudence, Physiology, and by Robert Christison (1829)
"But that disease never proves so quickly fatal as the rapid cases of poisoning
with nux vomica ; and it never produces the symptoms of irritation observed ..."
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