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cinchona
  1. 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.
  2. The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria.
  3. (medicine) Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “In the mid-seventeenth century, Spain began to import the bitter bark of cinchona trees from Peru and Ecuador as an antidote for malaria.”
      “Quinine is a natural extract of the cinchona tree, and was used to treat malaria.”
      “There are still cinchona trees in the area, though modern medicine has rendered them useless.”
cincher
  1. Something that cinches as in holds and fastens, such as a belt or corset.
  2. Something that proves a point or concludes a story
  3. A waist cincher (type of corset).
  4. Synonyms:
cinch
  1. A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
  2. (informal) Something that is very easy to do.
  3. (informal) A firm hold.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The fitness test was a cinch for Drew as he had kept himself in superb physical condition.”
      “He was a cinch to cast as the wicked wizard Jafar in Aladdin.”
      “He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch.”
cinch
  1. (card game) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The fitness test was a cinch for Drew as he had kept himself in superb physical condition.”
      “He was a cinch to cast as the wicked wizard Jafar in Aladdin.”
      “He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch.”
cinchonism
  1. A pathological condition in humans caused by an overdose of quinine or its natural source, cinchona bark.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Evidence of cinchonism, such as tinnitus, may occur occasionally in patients receiving 260-520 mg of quinine sulfate daily.”
      “Mild cinchonism consists of ringing in the ears, headache, nausea and disturbed vision.”
      “I gave it as my opinion that the man was suffering from chronic cinchonism, or quinin poisoning.”
cinchonidine
  1. (organic chemistry) A stereoisomer and pseudoenantiomer of cinchonine, used in asymmetric synthesis.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Dr de Vrij states that the substance known under this name is a mixture of hydrochlorate of cinchonidine and of cinchonine.”
      “Tartrate of potash and soda indicate, under these circumstances, only the presence of cinchonidine.”
      “If it is chemically pure, cinchonidine belongs to the non-fluorescent alkaloids.”
cinchonine
  1. (organic chemistry) An alkaloid, obtained from the bark of cinchona trees, that is used as an antimalarial agent.
  2. Examples:
    1. “We conclude that intravenous infusion of cinchonine might be started 12 hours before chemotherapy infusion.”
      “Dr de Vrij states that the substance known under this name is a mixture of hydrochlorate of cinchonidine and of cinchonine.”
      “When cinchonine is distilled with solid potassium hydrate, it yields pyrrol and bases of both the pyridine and quinoline series.”
cinchoninium
  1. (organic chemistry) The cation formed by protonation of cinchonine.
cinchonidia
  1. Dated form of cinchonidine.
cinching
cinchonines
  1. plural of cinchonine
cinchonisms
cinchings
  1. plural of cinching
cinchonas
cinchers
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