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Jamestown weed (medicine)


jamestown weed
<botany> The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.

This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum.

Source: Websters Dictionary


hypostatical (medicine)


hypostatical


1. Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary. "The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles." (Boyle)

2. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances.

3. <medicine> Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation. Hypostatic union, the union of the divine with the human Nature of Christ.

Origin: Gr., cf. F. Hypostatique.

Source: Websters Dictionary