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camphor
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Camphor \Cam"phor\ (k[a^]m"f[~e]r), n. [OE. camfere, F. camphre (cf. It. canfora, Sp. camfora, alcanfor, LL. canfora, camphora, NGr. kafoyra`), fr. Ar. k[=a]f[=u]r, prob. fr. Skr. karp[=u]ra.] A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different ...
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Camphor is a David Sylvian compilation album released in 2002 as a companion to Everything and Nothing . The focus is on his instrumental work. The album, nonetheless, has two previously unreleased tracks: "The Song Which Gives the Key to Perfection" and ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ His studies laid the foundations for his later researches on camphor and the mechanism of aromatic substitution. ▪ I smelled camphor and looked up into the bright, sun-reflecting glasses of my uncle. ▪ It smelt of camphor as ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context organic compound English) A white transparent waxy crystalline isoprenoid ketone, with a strong pungent odour, used in pharmacy.
Usage examples of camphor.
Nurse Banks went to the side table, took up the ampoule of camphor, went through the pantomime of filling a syringe and returned to the patient.
For in it grow camphor, cubebs, cardamons, nutmegs, and many other precious spices.
I thought that with my matches and my camphor I could contrive to keep my path illuminated through the woods.
The pebbled beach is crowded with families: shoeless fathers in lounge suits and high white collars, mothers in blouses and skirts startled out of war-long camphor sleep, kids running all over in sunsuits, nappies, rompers, short pants, knee socks, Eton hats.
The vapours of camphor, alcohol, chloroform, sulphuric and nitric ether, are poisonous in moderately large doses, but in small doses serve as narcotics or, anaesthetics, greatly delaying the subsequent action of meat.
I should have imagined the anaesthetist would have given the camphor and the hyoscine injections.
So that camphor acts as a stimulant, and it is the only known stimulant for plants.
We may conclude that a small dose of camphor in solution is a powerful stimulant to Drosera.
Vogel that camphor is a stimulant in other ways to various plants and seeds.
Hence alcohol of the above strength is not poisonous, nor does it stimulate the leaves like camphor does.
Cabbage, decoction of, action on Drosera, 83 Cadmium chloride, action on Drosera, 183 Caesium, chloride of, action on Drosera, 181 Calcium, salts of, action on Drosera, 182 Camphor, action on Drosera, 209 Canby, Dr.
Veratrine, action on Drosera, 204 Vessels in leaves of Drosera, 247 of Dionaea, 314 Vogel, on effects of camphor on plants, 209 W.
The camphor injection helped matters at the time but the pulse is still unsatisfactory.
Along here, small syringe for the camphor, another small syringe for the hyoscinethey hold twenty-five minims each.
Banks might have substituted hyoscine for camphor when she prepared the syringe, but I found that the stock solution of hyoscine contained the full amount minus one dose that was accounted for.