An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionaryBeing a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French and German languages . chief constituent of cas-tor-oil. [B. 8.] RICINOSTEARIC ACID, n. Ri^s-i^n-o-ste-a^rMc. Rici-nussfearinsdure. Margaritic ccid; ob-tained in the saponification of castor-oil. [B, 93 (a, 14).] RICINUS (Lat.), n. m. Rias(ri2k)i2n-u3s(u4s). kiki. Kporuiv,o-tAt. Fr., ricin. Ger., R. A genus of the Euxihorbiacioe. TheRicinece are a subdivision of the Euphorbiacecp. [B, 4
An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionaryBeing a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French and German languages . chief constituent of cas-tor-oil. [B. 8.] RICINOSTEARIC ACID, n. Ri^s-i^n-o-ste-a^rMc. Rici-nussfearinsdure. Margaritic ccid; ob-tained in the saponification of castor-oil. [B, 93 (a, 14).] RICINUS (Lat.), n. m. Rias(ri2k)i2n-u3s(u4s). kiki. Kporuiv,o-tAt. Fr., ricin. Ger., R. A genus of the Euxihorbiacioe. TheRicinece are a subdivision of the Euphorbiacecp. [B, 42, 170 (a. —Capsulse cum oleo ricini [Dan. Ph.]. Capsules of animalgelatin each containing 75 centigrammes of castor-oil. [B, 95 (a,38).]—Emulsio ricini [Swiss Ph.]. An emulsion of 4 parts of cas-tor-oil, 35 of water, and 1 part of gum arabic. [B, 95 (a, 38).]—Grosse Rsamen (Ger.). See Barbadoes nuts.—Oleum (e sem-ine) ricini. See Castor-o//(1st def.).—Ricini semen [Gr. Ph.].See Semina ricini.—IX. africanns. A variety (bj- some considered A, ape; A^, at; A^, ah; A^. all; Cli, chin; Ch^, loch (Scottish); E, he; E^, ell; G, go; I, die; I, in; N, in; N*, tank; 2719 RIBANDRIGOR. RICINUS COMMUNIS. [A; 327.] a distinct species) of R. communis^ having the same properties. Itgrows wild on the borders of the Mediterranean, [a, 35.]— See .Tatropha curcas.—K. communis. Fr., ricin{commun), bnis de carapat^ palma Christi. Ger., gemeiner Wun-derbaum, Christuspalme. Castor-bean, castor-oil plant, , the kUl, or Kporatv, of Dioscorides ; a native probablj^ of theEast Indies and Africa, now widely distributed through cultivation in most tropicaland many tem-perate annual herbin the temperatelatitudesof NorthAmerica and Eu-rope, it is a shrubor small tree inthe warmer re-gions of the Medi-ferrauean, and insome tropicalcountries attainsa height of 40feet. Some 16more or less well-marked forms,some of whichare regarded by many botanistsa
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