Strychnos (strik'nos)

A genus of the Loganiaceae. S. cas tel nae an a. A species growing on the upper Amazon; it furnishes a variety of curare. S. ignatia, indigenous tree S. Ignatii. St. Philippine to the Ignatius's bean; Islands.a The hard, bony, inodorous, bitter seeds, the ignatia of the U. S. Ph., 1880, which have the same properties as nux-vomica, contain strychnin and brucin. S. nuxvomica. The source of nux-vomica; a tree indigenous to the East Indies, Indian Archipelago. S. tieute. The most poisonous species, a Javanese shrub. The root bark contains strychnin and is used to prepare an arrow poison known as upas tieute (not to be confounded with the upas antiar). S. toxic aria, S. toxifera. A tree indigenous to British Guiana and the upper regions of the Orinoco and Amazon. It yields a variety of curare.The [Gr., stump. part strychnos.'] that is left after a portion of an organ has been removed by amputation or otherwise. conical S. A troublesome condition, the result of insufficient flap, of sloughing, or of retraction of muscles, by which the bone is left after an amputation to be covered by granulation ti ue. [Old Eng., stumpe, stompe.1