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  • English Word Quinic Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or connected with, quinine and related compounds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
  • English Word Quinicine Definition An uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.
  • English Word Quinidine Definition An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge.
  • English Word Quinine Definition An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc.
  • English Word Quininic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.
  • English Word Quininism Definition Alt. of Quinism
  • English Word Quinism Definition See Cinchonism.
  • English Word Quinizarin Definition A yellow crystalline substance produced artificially. It is isomeric with alizarin.
  • English Word Quinizine Definition any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, certain of which are used as antipyretics.
  • English Word Quinnat Definition The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); -- called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance.
  • English Word Quinoa Definition The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.
  • English Word Quinogen Definition A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.
  • English Word Quinoidine Definition A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids.
  • English Word Quinoline Definition A nitrogenous base, C9H7N obtained as a pungent colorless liquid by the distillation of alkaloids, bones, coal tar, etc. It the nucleus of many organic bodies, especially of certain alkaloids and related substances; hence, by extension, any one of the series of alkaloidal bases of which quinoline proper is the type.
  • English Word Quinologist Definition One who is versed in quinology.
  • English Word Quinology Definition The science which treats of the cultivation of the cinchona, and of its use in medicine.
  • English Word Quinone Definition A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type.
  • English Word Quinovic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark.
  • English Word Quinovin Definition An amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks. Called also quinova bitter, and quinova.
  • English Word Quinoxaline Definition Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous bases obtained by the union of certain aniline derivatives with glyoxal or with certain ketones.
  • English Word Quinoxyl Definition The hypothetical radical of certain quinone derivatives related to rhodizonic acid.
  • English Word Quinoyl Definition A radical of which quinone is the hydride, analogous to phenyl.
  • English Word Quinquagesima Definition Fiftieth.
  • English Word Quinquangular Definition Having five angles or corners.
  • English Word Quinquarticular Definition Relating to the five articles or points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists.
  • English Word Quinque foliolate Definition Having five leaflets.
  • English Word Quinque- Definition A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed.
  • English Word Quinqueangled Definition Having five angles; quinquangular.
  • English Word Quinquedentate Definition Alt. of Quinquedentated
  • English Word Quinquedentated Definition Five-toothed; as, a quinquedentate leaf.