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Bezoar

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A bezoar is a mass found trapped in the gastrointestinal system, though it can occur in other locations. [1]

56 relations: Al-Andalus, Ambroise Paré, Antidote, Arsenate, Arsenic trioxide, Barry B. Levine, Bezoardicum, BioMed Central, Bolus (digestion), Bubble gum, Calculus bovis, Carbonated soda treatment of phytobezoars, Cases Journal, Caveat emptor, Cellulose, Chandelor v Lopus, Chinese herbology, Choke (horse), Coca-Cola, Common law, Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Drug overdose, England, Enterolith, Esophagus, Exchequer, Fecal impaction, Fraud, Gastrointestinal tract, Goa stone, Gorochana, Hairball, Horse, Ibn Zuhr, Inorganic compound, Inspissation, Large intestine, List of English words of Persian origin, Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Modified-release dosage, Organic compound, Persian language, Persimmon, Phytobezoar, Picatrix, Plaintiff, Poison, Public domain, Rapunzel syndrome, Regurgitalith, ..., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Shellac, Snake-stone, Toadstone, Trachea, Traditional Chinese medicine. Expand index (6 more) »

Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus (الأنْدَلُس, trans.; al-Ándalus; al-Ândalus; al-Àndalus; Berber: Andalus), also known as Muslim Spain, Muslim Iberia, or Islamic Iberia, was a medieval Muslim territory and cultural domain occupying at its peak most of what are today Spain and Portugal.

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Ambroise Paré

Ambroise Paré (c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III.

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Antidote

An antidote is a substance which can counteract a form of poisoning.

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Arsenate

The arsenate ion is.

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Arsenic trioxide

Arsenic trioxide is an inorganic compound with the formula.

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Barry B. Levine

Barry B. Levine (born 1941) is an American academic and founding professor of Sociology at the Florida International University.

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Bezoardicum

Bezoardicum (bezoar of) is a term applied to multiple substances used in alchemy and other practices.

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BioMed Central

BioMed Central (BMC) is a United Kingdom-based, for-profit scientific open access publisher.

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Bolus (digestion)

In digestion, a bolus (from Latin bolus, "ball") is a ball-like mixture of food and saliva that forms in the mouth during the process of chewing (which is largely an adaptation for plant-eating mammals).

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Bubble gum

Bubble gum is a type of chewing gum, designed to be inflated out of the mouth as a bubble.

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Calculus bovis

Calculus bovis, niu-huang (牛黃) or ox bezoars are dried gallstones of cattle used in Chinese herbology.

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Carbonated soda treatment of phytobezoars

Carbonated soda treatment of phytobezoars is the use of carbonated soda to try to dissolve a phytobezoar.

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Cases Journal

Cases Journal was an open access, peer-reviewed medical journal publishing any case reports from any area of healthcare that were understandable, ethical, authentic, and included all information essential to its interpretation.

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Caveat emptor

Caveat emptor is Latin for "Let the buyer beware" (from caveat, "may he beware", a subjunctive form of cavēre, "to beware" + ēmptor, "buyer").

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Cellulose

Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula, a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of β(1→4) linked D-glucose units.

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Chandelor v Lopus

Chandelor v Lopus (1603) 79 ER 3 is a famous case in the common law of England.

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Chinese herbology

Chinese herbology is the theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy, which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

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Choke (horse)

Choke is a condition in horses in which the esophagus is blocked, usually by food material.

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Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola, or Coke (also Pemberton's Cola at certain Georgian vendors), is a carbonated soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company.

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Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.

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Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

Cyclopædia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (two volumes in folio) was an encyclopedia published by Ephraim Chambers in London in 1728, and reprinted in numerous editions in the eighteenth century.

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Drug overdose

The term drug overdose (or simply overdose or OD) describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Enterolith

An enterolith is a mineral concretion or calculus formed anywhere in the gastrointestinal system.

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Esophagus

The esophagus (American English) or oesophagus (British English), commonly known as the food pipe or gullet (gut), is an organ in vertebrates through which food passes, aided by peristaltic contractions, from the pharynx to the stomach.

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Exchequer

In the civil service of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty’s Exchequer, or just the Exchequer, is the accounting process of central government and the government's current account i.e. money held from taxation and other government revenues in the Consolidated Fund.

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Fecal impaction

A fecal impaction is a solid, immobile bulk of feces that can develop in the rectum as a result of chronic constipation.

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Fraud

In law, fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

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Gastrointestinal tract

The gastrointestinal tract (digestive tract, digestional tract, GI tract, GIT, gut, or alimentary canal) is an organ system within humans and other animals which takes in food, digests it to extract and absorb energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste as feces.

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Goa stone

A Goa stone is a man-made bezoar that is considered to have medicinal and talismanic properties.

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Gorochana

Gorochana (Tibetan: gi-wang) refers to a stone or 'bezoar' found in cattle (Sanskrit - "go"), such as the bull, cow, ox, and yak.

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Hairball

A hairball is a small collection of hair or fur formed in the stomach of animals, and uncommonly in humans, that is occasionally vomited up when it becomes too big.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''.

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Ibn Zuhr

Ibn Zuhr (ابن زهر; 1094–1162), traditionally known by his Latinized name of Avenzoar, was an Arab physician, surgeon, and poet.

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Inorganic compound

An inorganic compound is typically a chemical compound that lacks C-H bonds, that is, a compound that is not an organic compound, but the distinction is not defined or even of particular interest.

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Inspissation

Inspissation is the process of thickening by dehydration.

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Large intestine

The large intestine, also known as the large bowel or colon, is the last part of the gastrointestinal tract and of the digestive system in vertebrates.

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List of English words of Persian origin

As Indo-European languages, English and Persian are daughter languages of their common ancestral Proto-Indo-European, and still share many cognate words of similar forms.

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Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, referred to as The Merck Manual, is the world's best-selling medical textbook, and the oldest continuously published English language medical textbook.

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Modified-release dosage

Modified-release dosage is a mechanism that (in contrast to immediate-release dosage) delivers a drug with a delay after its administration (delayed-release dosage) or for a prolonged period of time (extended-release dosage) or to a specific target in the body (targeted-release dosage).

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Organic compound

In chemistry, an organic compound is generally any chemical compound that contains carbon.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی), is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Persimmon

The persimmon (sometimes spelled persimon) is the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros.

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Phytobezoar

A phytobezoar is a type of bezoar, or trapped mass in the gastrointestinal system, that consists of components of indigestible plant material, such as fibres, skins and seeds.

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Picatrix

Picatrix is the name used today, for a 400-page book of magic and astrology originally written in Arabic under the title غاية الحكيم Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm, which most scholars assume was originally written in the middle of the 11th century, though an argument for composition in the first half of the 10th century has been made.

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Plaintiff

A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court.

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Poison

In biology, poisons are substances that cause disturbances in organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when an organism absorbs a sufficient quantity.

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Rapunzel syndrome

Rapunzel syndrome is an extremely rare intestinal condition in humans resulting from ingesting hair (trichophagia).

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Regurgitalith

Regurgitaliths are the fossilized remains of stomach contents that have been regurgitated by an animal.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (sometimes referred to as SIO, Scripps Oceanography, or Scripps) in La Jolla, California, founded in 1903, is one of the oldest and largest centers for ocean and Earth science research, public service, undergraduate and graduate training in the world.

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Shellac

Shellac is a resin secreted by the female lac bug, on trees in the forests of India and Thailand.

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Snake-stone

A snake-stone, also known as a viper's stone, black stone, schwarze Steine, pierres noire, piedritas negras or serpent-stone, nagamani is an animal bone or stone used as folk medicine for snake bite in Africa, South America, and Asia.

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Toadstone

The toadstone, also known as bufonite, is a mythical stone or gem that was thought to be found in the head of a toad.

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Trachea

The trachea, colloquially called the windpipe, is a cartilaginous tube that connects the pharynx and larynx to the lungs, allowing the passage of air, and so is present in almost all air-breathing animals with lungs.

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Traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a style of traditional medicine built on a foundation of more than 2,500 years of Chinese medical practice that includes various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy, but recently also influenced by modern Western medicine.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezoar

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