Amboyna

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 3

besia. Button (am-boi' '-nah but'-un). See Fram- Ambra Grisea Ambergris. (am'-brah gris'-e-ah). Synonym of Ambrein (atn' -bre-in). A substance much resembling cholesterin; it is obtained from ambergris by digestion in hot alcohol.