different between quinaquina vs cinchona
quinaquina
English
Noun
quinaquina (usually uncountable, plural quinaquinas)
- cinchona bark, quinquina
Spanish
Noun
quinaquina f (plural quinaquinas)
- cinchona bark, quinquina
quinaquina From the web:
cinchona
English
Alternative forms
- (hypercorrect): chinchona
- (misspelling): chincona
Etymology
From New Latin cinchona, from Spanish Chinchón. Named by Carl Linnaeus after Ana de Osorio, 4th Countess of Chinchón (1599–1625), the wife of the Spanish Viceroy of Peru, who was allegedly cured of a fever by the bark.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /s???k??n?/
- (US) IPA(key): /s???ko?n?/
Noun
cinchona (countable and uncountable, plural cinchonas)
- A tree or shrub of the genus Cinchona, native to the Andes in South America but since widely cultivated in Indonesia and India as well for its medicinal bark.
- Synonym: quinquina
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 8)
- German chemists were the first to isolate pure drug chemicals from herbal medicines, with the isolation of morphine from crude opium in 1803 and quinine from the bark of the cinchona tree in 1820.
- The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria.
- Synonyms: cinchona-bark, Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark, quinquina
- (medicine) Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.
Derived terms
- cinchonal
- cinchona red
Related terms
- cinchonaceae, cinchonaceous
- cinchonamine, cinchonate, cinchonia, cinchonic, cinchonicia, cinchonicine, cinchonidia, cinchonidine
- cinchonic red
Translations
Further reading
- cinchona on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- chincona
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