different between bezoar vs trichobezoar

English

Etymology

From French bézoard, based on Arabic ????????? (b?zahr), from Middle Persian p?tzhl (p?dzahr, “bezoar, antidote”). In ancient times, bezoars from animals were ground up and ingested as remedies for various maladies and as antidotes to poisons.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: b??z?r, IPA^(key): /?bi.z??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bi?.z??/
• Hyphenation: be?zoar

Noun

bezoar (plural bezoars)

1. A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.
2. An enterolith.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• bezoar at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Etymology

From French bézoard, from Arabic ????????? (b?zahr), from Middle Persian p?tzhl (p?dzahr, “bezoar, antidote”).

Noun

bezoar m (invariable)

1. bezoar

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bezoar m (definite singular bezoaren, indefinite plural bezoarer, definite plural bezoarene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by besoar

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• benzoar

Noun

bezoar m (plural bezoares)

1. bezoar (mass of undigested matter)

Spanish

Etymology

From French bézoard, from Arabic ????????? (b?zahr), superseding native bezaar, from the same source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /be?o?a?/, [be.?o?a?]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /beso?a?/, [be.so?a?]
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

bezoar m (plural bezoares)

1. bezoar

Derived terms

• bezoárico

References

• “bezoar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

tricho- +? bezoar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??k??bi?z??/

Noun

trichobezoar (plural trichobezoars)

1. A bezoar composed of hair.

Synonyms

• hairball

Related terms

• phytobezoar

Translations