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lucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition.

Pertaining to, or derived from, or resembling, chrysophane. Chrysophanic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance extracted from rhubarb, yellow dock, sienna, chrysarobin, etc., and shown to be a derivative of an anthracene. It is used in the treatment of skin diseases; -- called also rhein, rheic acid, rhubarbarin…

Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

Circumesophagal.

One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.

To clear from sophism or error. [R.] Hare.

Esophageal.

Pertaining to the esophagus. [Written also .]

Esophageal.

The operation of making an incision into the esophagus, for the purpose of removing any foreign substance that obstructs the passage. [Written also oesophagotomy.]

That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive. [Written also .]

of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. -- n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves.

One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.

The doctrines of the Gymnosophists. Good.

The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.

See Glabella.

The parenchyma of a leaf between the skin of the two surfaces. Gray.

A philosophical or learned fool. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to both throat and nose; as, a nasopharyngeal polypus.