podophyllin

American  

[pod-uh-fil-in] / ˌpɒd əˈfɪl ɪn /

noun

1. a resin, occurring as a light brown to greenish amorphous powder, obtained from podophyllum, and used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic and, locally, in the treatment of genital warts.

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podophyllin British  

/ ˌpɒdəʊˈfɪlɪn /

noun

1. a bitter yellow resin obtained from the dried underground stems of the May apple and mandrake: used to treat warts and formerly as a cathartic

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Other Word Forms

• podophyllic adjective

Etymology

Origin of podophyllin

First recorded in 1850–55; podophyll(um) + -in ²

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, National Cancer Institute researchers tried podophyllin on mouse cancers, got comparable results.

From Time Magazine Archive

Podophyllum resin, or podophyllin, is the resin of the dried root of the mandrake or May apple; Carter combined this with the dried juice of aloes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Diseases, Dose, etc.—The resin, called podophyllin, can be obtained, and is used in one-fourth to one-eighth grain as a laxative; one-sixteenth of a grain can be taken four times a day for chronic liver trouble.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

Take podophyllin and sanguinaria, of each ten grains; leptandrin, twenty grains; white sugar, forty grains.

From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous

I do not think I have more than two podophyllin pills left in the box, but to those you are welcome.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)