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haemorrhagins (medicine) and eggar (medicine)


haemorrhagins (medicine)


haemorrhagins


A group of toxins found in certain venoms and poisonous material from some plants, e.g., rattlesnake venom and ricin; haemorrhagins cause degeneration and lysis of endothelial cells in capillaries and small vessels, thereby resulting in numerous small haemorrhages in the tissues.

Origin: haemorrhage + -in


eggar (medicine)


eggar
<zoology> Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. Roboris) of Europe.

Origin: Etymol. Uncertain.

Source: Websters Dictionary