charta

(kar’tah), pl. char/ta [L.; Gr. xdprns). 1. Paper. 2. A piece of paper, medicated or otherwise. Ο. atropin a’ta, paper charged with atropin and cut into small bits. "each containing a milligram of the drug. c. cantharid is, c. epispas’tic a, cantharidal or blistering paper. c. explorato’ria lu’tea, turmeric paper; paper stained with turmeric for use as a test-paper. c. pot as’sii nitra’- tis, paper medicated with pota ium nitrate: when burned, its fumes relieve the paroxysms Stiffne of the of asthma. c. sin a’pis, mustard-paper; paper with a preparation of powdered mustard-seed: used as a rubefacient and derivative.