| green tobacco sickness | An illness of tobacco harvest workers characterised by headache, dizziness and vomiting. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| wild tobacco | <botany> A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. Cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red colour of its flowers. Origin: NL. So called from Lobel, botanist to King James I. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tobacco | 1. <botany> An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste. The name is extended to other species of the genus, and to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco (Nicotiana rustica, and also Lobelia inflata), mountain tobacco (Arnica montana), and Shiraz tobacco (Nicotiana Persica). 2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc, by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways. <chemistry> Tobacco box See Nicotianine. Tobacco man, a tobacconist. Tobacco pipe. A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or other material. <botany> The larva of a large hawk moth (Sphinx, or Phlegethontius, Carolina). It is dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very injurious to the tobacco crop. Origin: Sp. Tabaco, fr. The Indian tabaco the tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tobacco anionic peroxidase | <enzyme> Has been shown to oxidise a number of significant plant secondary cpds in vitro; from nicotiana tabacum; expressed in highest level in lignifying and epidermal tissue; aa sequence known; genbank l02124 Registry number: EC 1.11.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| tobacco heart | Cardiac irritability marked by irregular action, palpitation, and sometimes pain, believed to occur as a result of the excessive use of tobacco. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tobacco industry | The aggregate business enterprise of agriculture, manufacture, and distribution related to tobacco and tobacco-derived products. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tobacco, smokeless | The powdered leaves of nicotiana tabacum which are either inhaled through the nose, chewed, or stored in cheek pouches. It includes any product of tobacco that is not smoked. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tobacco smoke pollution | Contamination of the air by tobacco smoke. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tobacco use disorder | Tobacco used to the detriment of a person's health or social functioning. Tobacco dependence is included. (12 Dec 1998) |
| environmental tobacco smoke | A complex mixture of chemical constituents and particulates released into the atmosphere from the burning tip of a cigarette, pipe or cigar or from smoke exhaled by the smoker. (09 Oct 1997) |
| bovine virus diarrhoea virus | A virus of the genus Pestivirus, in the family Togaviridae, causing bovine virus diarrhoea; New York, Oregon, and Indiana strains of the virus are recognised. Synonym: mucosal disease virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abelson leukaemia virus | A defective murine leukaemia virus capable of transforming lymphoid cells and producing a rapidly progressing lymphoid leukaemia after superinfection with friend, moloney, or rauscher virus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Abelson murine leukaemia virus | A retrovirus belonging to the Type C retrovirus group subfamily (family Oncovirinae) which is associated with leukaemia and produces in vitro transformation of mouse cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adeno-associated virus | <virology> A genus of viruses in the family Parvoviridae which are all defective viruses (unable to replicate by themselves) and depend on the co-infection of their host cell by other, nondefective viruses to help them replicate. (09 Oct 1997) |
| adenoidal-pharyngeal-conjunctival virus | <virology> An icosahedral (20-sided) virus that contains DNA, there are over 40 different adenovirus varieties, some of which cause the common cold. (10 May 1997) |