chinchona vs cinchona what difference

what is difference between chinchona and cinchona

English

Noun

chinchona (plural chinchonas)

1. Alternative form of cinchona (“bark of the tree”)

English

Alternative forms

• (hypercorrect): chinchona
• (misspelling): chincona

Etymology

From New Latin cinchona, from Spanish Chinchón. Named by Carl Linnaeus after Ana de Osorio, 4th Countess of Chinchón (1599–1625), the wife of the Spanish Viceroy of Peru, who was allegedly cured of a fever by the bark.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɪŋˈkəʊnə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sɪŋˈkoʊnə/

Noun

cinchona (countable and uncountable, plural cinchonas)

1. A tree or shrub of the genus Cinchona, native to the Andes in South America but since widely cultivated in Indonesia and India as well for its medicinal bark.

   Synonym: quinquina

   • 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 8)

     German chemists were the first to isolate pure drug chemicals from herbal medicines, with the isolation of morphine from crude opium in 1803 and quinine from the bark of the cinchona tree in 1820.

2. The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria.

   Synonyms: cinchona-bark, Jesuit’s bark, Peruvian bark, quinquina

3. (medicine) Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.

Derived terms

• cinchonal
• cinchona red

Related terms

• cinchonaceae, cinchonaceous
• cinchonamine, cinchonate, cinchonia, cinchonic, cinchonicia, cinchonicine, cinchonidia, cinchonidine
• cinchonic red

Translations

Further reading

• cinchona on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• chincona

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