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cinchona
[ sing-koh-nuh, sin- ]
noun
- any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Cinchona, of the madder family, especially C. calisaya, native to the Andes, cultivated there and in Java and India for its bark, which yields quinine and other alkaloids.
- Also called Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark. the medicinal bark of such trees or shrubs.
cinchona
/ sɪŋˈkɒnɪk; sɪŋˈkəʊnə /
noun
- any tree or shrub of the South American rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, having medicinal bark
- Also calledcinchona barkPeruvian barkcalisayachina bark the dried bark of any of these trees, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
- any of the drugs derived from cinchona bark
Derived Forms
- cinchonic, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- ·Dz· [sin-, kon, -ik], adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of cinchona1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of cinchona1
Example Sentences
Carbonated water failed to do that but it did inspire the creation of medicated water, or tonic water infused with quinine from the bark of the cinchona tree.
At the time, the only medicine to combat malaria was quinine, which is extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree.
Oddly, von Hippel traces the birth of the modern chemical industry to the extraction of quinine from cinchona bark in the 1820s.
Officials have even said that Indian plantations could increase the growing capacity of cinchona trees, whose bark contains the compound quinine, which has been used to treat malaria since the 1860s.
Experimenting with quinine from imported cinchona tree bark, he came up with his famous “fever pill” in 1832, according to the State Historical Society of Missouri.
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