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A powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is used to produce contraction of the uterus.
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A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.
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Affected with the ergot fungus; as, ergotized rye.
conj. / adv.
Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular way.
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A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot.
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A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.
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The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.
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Ergotized rye or other grain.
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A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.
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Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.
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A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
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Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot; as, ergotic acid.
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A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.
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See 2d Calcar, 3 (b).
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Affected with spur, or ergot; as, spurred rye.
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A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.
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An extract made from ergot.
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An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion.
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A logical deduction.
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A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.
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