See Also: scillaren(medicine)

sinuosity (iou) and scillaren (medicine)


sinuosity (iou)



sinuosity noun. L16.
[French sinuosite or medieval Latin sinuositas, formed as SINUOSE: see -ITY.]
The state or quality of being sinuous. L16.
A curve or bend, esp. in a river or road. E18.
fig. A complexity, an intricacy. Usu. in pl. E19.

scillaren (medicine)


scillaren


A mixture of glycosides, possessing digitalis-like actions, present in squill.

Scillaren A, a crystalline steroidal glycoside, present in squill (Scilla maritima), that can be hydrolyzed to glucose and proscillaridin A; the latter can be hydrolyzed to rhamnose and the steroid aglycone scillaridin A; same actions and uses as digitalis glycosides.

Synonym: transvaalin.

Scillaren B, an amorphous glycosidal fraction obtained from squill, consisting of at least seven cardioactive glycosides: glucoscillaren A, scillipheoside, glucoscillipheoside, scillicryptoside, scilliglaucoside, scillicyanoside, and scillazuroside.