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Officinal (medicine) and mussurana (iou)


Officinal (medicine)


officinal


1. Used in a shop, or belonging to it.

2. <pharmacology> Kept in stock by apothecaries; said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.

This term is often interchanged with official, but in strict use officinal drugs are not necessarily official. See Official.

Origin: F, fr. L. Officina a workshop, contr.fr. Opificina, fr. Opifex a workman; opus work + facere = to make or do.

Source: Websters Dictionary


mussurana (iou)



mussurana noun. E20.

A non-venomous tropical American colubrid snake, Clelia clelia, usu. black in colour, which feeds on Other snakes, being immune to their venom.