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Definition of Sabadilla

1. n. A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schœnocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative.

Definition of Sabadilla

1. Noun. A Mexican and Central American plant of the lily family ''(Schoenocaulon officinale)''. ¹

2. Noun. The seeds of this plant, used in medicine and insecticides. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sabadilla

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Medical Definition of Sabadilla

1. A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schaenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative. Origin: Sp. Cebadilla. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Sabadilla

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"It was deleted from the BP 1914, but is retained in the USP It is used externally, chiefly against lice. sabadilla seeds contain about 0'7 pc of total ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1892)
"THE ALKALOIDS OF sabadilla. BY RICHARD FISCHER.* Although considerable work has been done by different chemists and pharmacists on the alkaloids of ..."

3. A Manual of pharmacodynamics by Richard Hughes (1899)
"We will commence with the Indian barley, sabadilla. ... sabadilla is not only a specific for a certain kind of very bad angina, and to a rare kind of ..."

4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1896)
"In 1819, the seeds of Veratrum sabadilla,1 called also ... it is desirable to consider the alkaloids of sabadilla and the hellebores separately. ..."

5. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"CH2.CH2.N N.CH2.CH2.CH ir ; iI ! CH2 -- CH.CH2.CH- CH2 Alkaloids of sabadilla ... In 1819, the seeds of Veratrum sabadilla,1 called also ..."

6. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1878)
"(Scratching), Itching.—(Standing), Pain in left side of back.—( Walking), Pain in lelt side of back ; heaviness in knees. sabadilla. ..."

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