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Aristolochia Serpentaria Serpentaria Ser`pen*ta"ri*a, a.[L. (sc. herba), fr. serpens
serpent.] (Med.)
The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot
(Aristolochia Serpentaria).
Aristolochia Serpentaria Snakeroot Snake"root`, n. (Bot.)
Any one of several plants of different genera and species,
most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be
efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the
roots of any of these.
Note: The Virginia snakeroot is Aristolochia Serpentaria;
black snakeroot is Sanicula, esp. S. Marilandica,
also Cimicifuga racemosa; Seneca snakeroot is
Polygala Senega; button snakeroot is Liatris, also
Eryngium; white snakeroot is Eupatorium
ageratoides. The name is also applied to some others
besides these.
Prenanthes serpentaria Gall Gall, n.[OE. galle, gal, AS. gealla; akin to D. gal, OS.
& OHG. galla, Icel. gall, SW. galla, Dan. galde, L. fel, Gr.
?, and prob. to E. yellow. ? See Yellow, and cf. Choler]
1. (Physiol.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the
gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the
secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the
mucous membrane of the gall bladder.
2. The gall bladder.
3. Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
He hath . . . compassed me with gall and travail.
--Lam. iii. 5.
Comedy diverted without gall. --Dryden.
4. Impudence; brazen assurance. [Slang]
Gall bladder (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the
bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the
cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct,
or the hepatic duct.
Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the
Netherlands. --Dunglison.
Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant
with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the
Prenanthes serpentaria.
Serpentaria Serpentaria Ser`pen*ta"ri*a, a.[L. (sc. herba), fr. serpens
serpent.] (Med.)
The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot
(Aristolochia Serpentaria).
Serpentarius Serpentarius Ser`pen*ta"ri*us, n.[NL., fr. L. serpens
serpent.] (Astron.)
A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and
Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
