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Meanings of claviceps purpurea in English

Russian
спорынья
Portuguese
esporão-do-centeio
Spanish
cláviceps purpúrea
Catalan
banya de sègol
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Species of fungus.

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спорынья

A fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid.

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Examples for "ergot"
Examples for "ergot"
1
Italian mothers received an injection of the ergot derivative ergotamine after delivery.
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2
The opium poppy and ergot, a lysergic-acid producing fungus.
Cross Bones
3
Objective: Serotonergic appetite suppressants and ergot-derived dopamine agonists have been associated with drug-induced valvular heart disease.
Pubmed
4
The frequence with which ergot should be so administered depends on the results and the indications.
Disturbances of the Heart / Discussion of the Treatment of the H...
5
Two conditions are necessary for the production of this ergot upon the seed of rye grass.
Cattle and Their Diseases / Embracing Their History and Breeds, ...