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How to use colchicum in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word colchicum? Here are some examples.

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But with autumn crocus and colchicum I extended my planting pleasure by several weeks.
Another flower well worth waiting for is the autumn colchicum, Colchicum speciosum.
So Darwin had his urine tested, followed Bence Jones's special diet, and dosed himself with colchicum, a dangerously corrosive specific for gout.
Plants which contain alkaloids may also be highly toxic, such as colchicum, or alternatively harmless, such as borage.
Book VI deals with surgery, including an account of tracheotomy, and a final long book is taken up with drugs, including the use of colchicum for gout.
The Colchicum is much larger with goblet-shaped, fleshy flowers that are resistant to rain and should be planted in midsummer.
Colchicum, genus of flowering plants in the family Colchicaceae, consisting of about 30 species of herbs native to Eurasia.
Among the cyclamen, Colchicum, with elegant, long-stemmed pink goblets, completes this ravishing October picture.
Colchicum and autumn crocus should be planted out into the ground as soon as they become available to buy from your local garden centre.
Look out for Galanthus, Narcissus, Lilium, Colchicum, Cyclamen and Sternbergia.
Don't confuse this with Colchicum, often called autumn crocus or naked ladies.
Examples from Classical Literature
The physiological action of colchicum is that of a local irritant and a cardiac depressant of great energy.
The chief constituents of colchicum are two alkaloids, colchicine and veratrine.
A peculiar principle discovered by Gieger and Hesse in the seeds of the colchicum autumnale or common meadow saffron.
A mixture of iodide of potassium, sulphate of magnesia, and wine of colchicum, disguised with an aromatic tincture.
The abortive method consists in cutting short the attack by the administration of colchicum, veratria, or the salicin compounds.
Some cause violent pain, as colchicum, hellebore, and aconite.
It might therefore be supposed that Colchicum too acted as a cholagogue.
Colchicum says he has had him to dine, and thinks him a gentlemanlike lad.
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