Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Kuvat
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| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| espanja | quino |
| italia | cincona, china |
| kreikka | κίνα (kína) |
| portugali | quina |
| ranska | quinquina |
| suomi | kiinapuu, kiinapuun kuori, kiinankuori |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- 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.
- The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria.
- (medicine) Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.
Esimerkit
- 2001: 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. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 8)
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | cinchonas |
Luokat
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.
C. pubescens flowers
