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A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.
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A substance of very wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc.
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A substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of the dahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, as a colorless, spongy, amorphous material. It is so called because by decomposition it yields levulose.
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A substance resembling indigo blue, obtained artificially from certain isatogen compounds.
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A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humors.
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A substance which is similar to another in crystalline form and composition.
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A substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not aeriform.
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A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.
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