colchicum
nounEtymology Borrowed from translingual Colchicum, from Latin colchicum, from Ancient Greek κολχικόν (kolkhikón).
1
Any of several flowers of the genus Colchicum.
2
Medicine, Sciences The dried seed of the poisonous meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale, used medicinally.
- 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.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 87:
- Related terms
- colchicine