Definition of Aesculin

1. a sugar producer in chestnut bark [n -S]

Medical Definition of Aesculin

1. A glucoside obtained from the aesculus hippocastanum, or horse-chestnut, and characterised by its fine blue fluorescent solutions. Alternative forms: aesculin. See: Esculic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aesculin

aerugites
aerugo
aerugos
aery
aes alienum
aesc
aesces
aeschynanthus
aeschynite
aeschynites
aesculapian
aesculapian staff
aesculapian staffs
aesculapius
aesculic acid
aesculin (current term)
aesculins
aesthenosphere
aesthenospheres
aestheses
aesthesia
aesthesias
aesthesiometer
aesthesiometers
aesthesioneuroblastoma
aesthesioneuroblastomas
aesthesis
aesthesodic
aesthetasc
aesthetascs

Literary usage of Aesculin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Spectroscopy by Edward Charles Cyril Baly (1905)
"Greenish plate glass 3300-8000 Saturated solution of salicylic acid in alcohol in quartz cell 3500-8000 aesculin, 0-25 per cent. aqueous solution with one ..."

2. Mathematical and Physical Papers by George Gabriel Stokes, John William Strutt Rayleigh (1904)
"The tint, however, of the fluorescent light is decidedly different from that given by pure aesculin, for a specimen of which I am indebted to the kindness ..."

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