cane-sug'ar

Syn.: saccharose. Ordinary commercial granulated sugar. A disaccharid, consisting of one molecule of glufructose tcose and one molecule of by the elimination of one molecule of water. An important food. Prepared from sugar cane or sugar beet by pre ing the cane and by boiling the juice thus obtained. ca'nine teeth'. Called also cuspid at i, because they have one point. They are four in number, two in the upper jaw and two in the lower jaw, one being placed distal to each lateral incisor. They are larger and stronger than the incisors, especially in the roots. [Lat., can is, dog.] can in'iform. Resembling.a canine tooth. [Lat., can in us, canine, + form a, form.] can in us (ka-ni'nus). See table of muscles, under muscle. canities (kan-ish'e-ez). Grayne or whitene of the hair. It may be congenital, premature, or senile. [Lat., canities, gray hair.] canker. 1. Ulceration of the mouth. 2. That which corrodes or corrupts. A term seldom used in medicine at the present time [Mid. Eng., canker.] can'nabene. A liquid, C18H20, fountain the volatile oil of Cannabis indica. c. hydrid. The compound, C18H22, found in the volatile oil of Cannabis indica. It is a thin, golden yellow liquid of repulsive odor, and is highly irritant and poisonous. caii'nab in. A brown amorphous resinous substance obtained from Cannabis indica, containing the active principle. cannab'inol. An oil obtained from Cannabis indica, thought by some to be the active principle; said to be a phenol aldehyd of the formula OH.C20H28COH, hence lal. more accurately called cannabino- Can'nabis. 1. Hemp; a genus of annual urticaceous herbs. The fruit of C. sativa. American c. C. american a. The American variety of C. sativa. C. indica. 1. C. sativa. 2. The flowering tops of C. sativa. The extract, fluidextract, and tincture are official in the U. S. Ph. C. sativa. The common hemp, indigenous to Asia and cultivated gan throughout Europe and America. The herb of Indian hemp is extensively used in the East as an ingredient in intoxicants, producing peculiar delusions in which the perception of the proper relations of things in time and space is decidedly perverted. extractum c. indicae. An extract of pilular consistence made by exhausting the herb of C. indica with strong alcohol and evaporating the tincture. [U. S. Ph., Br. Ph.] extractum c. indicae fluidum. A fluid extract made by exhausting the herb of C. indica in alcohol. [U. S. Ph.] tinctura c. indicae. A 10 per cent, tincture [U. S. Ph.] or 5 per cent. [Br. Ph.]. [Lat., cannabis, hemp.] can'nula. A tube carrying in its lumen an obturator with a sharp-pointed end, generally used for introduction into some cavity of the body to draw off fluid or for introduction into a vein or artery for performing transfusion or infusion. In physiology, a gla or metal tube with a united neck for insertion into a blood ve el or a duct, washout c. A special form of c, with • a double chamber, used in blood pre ure experiments. When inserted into an artery, it, and the connecting tube, can be flushed at intervals, and the coagulation of the blood be prevented in long experiments. [Lat., dim. of canna, reed.] can-poisoning. Poisoning due to eating faultily preserved foods put up in cans. Can quoin's paste. A p. compounded of zinc oxid and wheat flour. canthar'idal. Pertaining to cantharides. canthar'ides. PI. of cantharis. canthar'idin. The active principle of cantharides. It occurs in crystalline form, is of bitter taste and produces blisters of the skin. It is the an hydrid of cantharidic acid. The formula is C10H12O4. cantharid ism (kan-thar'id-ism). Poisoning with cantharides, either by their ingestion by the mouth or by absorption from a cantharidal blister. The chief symptoms are strangury, burning pain in the urethra, swelling or even gangrene of the genitals, and the pa age of bloody and albuminous urine, together with the usual gastro-intestinal signs of irritant poisoning if the drug has been taken by the mouth. The lesions are inflammatory conditions of the kidneys and bladder.