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cantharidine

cantharidine is the alternative form of cantharidin.

Meaning of cantharidin

Noun

cantharidin (plural cantharidins)

  1. A volatile organic compound secreted by blister beetles.
    • Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.1885, Alexander Wynter Blyth, Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts, volume I, New York: William Wood and Co., page 430

Questions about cantharidine

What is cantharidine the alternative form of?
Cantharidine is the alternative form of cantharidin.

Words near cantharidine in the dictionary

  1. cantharides
  2. cantharidian
  3. cantharidiasis
  4. cantharidic
  5. cantharidin
  6. cantharidine
  7. cantharidins
  8. cantharidism
  9. cantharidized
  10. cantharids
  11. cantharis

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