Medical Definition of Pareira
1. Pareira brava, the root of Chondodendron tomentosum and other species of Chondodendron (family Menispermaceae), a vine of tropical America; one of the chief sources of d-tubocurarine; it has diuretic and urinary antiseptic properties. Origin: Pg. Parreira, vine trained against a wall (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pareira
Literary usage of Pareira
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"True pareira Brava—that is, the one derived from Chondrodendron tomentosum (the
official ... The stems are sometimes imported and sold as pareira Brava. ..."
2. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1866)
"In Catarrhal Affections of the Bladder, Dr. Front* considers that pareira is
undoubtedly one of the best remedies we possess. ..."
3. Science Papers: Chiefly Pharmacological and Botanical by Daniel Hanbury (1876)
"In transverse section it does not display zones of the same regular and beautiful
definition that one sees in ordinary pareira Brava. ..."
4. Origin and History of All the Pharmacopeial Vegetable Drugs, Chemicals and by John Uri Lloyd (1921)
"pareira brava, Chondrodendron tomentosum, is a climbing shrub, native to Peru
and Brazil ... The Portuguese gave it the name pareira brava, or Wild Vine, ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1872)
"I am very glad to learn that the root of pareira has ever been in the market,
... He positively stated that what was bought in the market as pareira was ..."
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