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balas ruby (medicine)


balas ruby
<chemical> A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.

Origin: OE. Bales, balais, F. Balais, LL. Balascus, fr. Ar. Balakhsh, so called from Badakhshan, Balashan, or Balaxiam, a place in the neighborhood of Samarcand, where this ruby is found.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Dammar (medicine)


dammar


A resin resembling copal, obtained from various species of Shorea (family Dipterocarpaceae) in the East Indies; used, dissolved in chloroform, for mounting microscopic specimens.

Origin: Hind. Damar, resin