Medical Definition of Aspidium
1. The rhizomes and stipes of Dryopteris filix-mus (European aspidium or male fern), or of Dryopteris marginalis (American aspidium or marginal fern) (family Polypodiaceae); used in the treatment of tapeworm infestation, usually in the form of the oleoresin or extract, but because of its potential toxicity, its use is restricted to patients who do not respond to treatment with safer drugs such as dichlorophen, niclosamide, or quinacrine. Origin: G. Aspidion, a little shield, dim. Of aspis, shield (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspidium
Literary usage of Aspidium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report: New York by Otis Stuart (1904)
"aspidium aculeatum Braunii Doell. Ontonagon Peninsula, Eaton's Ferns of NA; ...
aspidium Lonchitis Sw. Woods south shore of Lake Superior, Prof. ..."
2. Bulletin by Vermont Botanical Club (1906)
"aspidium FILIX-MAS IN WESTERN VERMONT. George L. Kirk. Until the fall of 1913
eastern Vermont claimed all the stations in this state for the interesting ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"aspidium SPINULOSUM (SWARTZ) AND ITS VARIETIES. BY GEo. E. DAVENPORT. DURING several
seasons past I have been making some special examinations of the ..."
4. Michigan Flora: A List of the Fern and Seed Plants Growing Without Cultivation by William James Beal (1904)
"aspidium aculeatum Braunii Doell. Ontonagon Peninsula, Eaton's Ferns of NA; ...
D. cristata Clintoniana (DC Eaton) Underw. aspidium cristatum Clin- ..."
5. Ferns: British and Exotic by E J. Lowe (1864)
"aspidium DECURRENS. Page, vol. 6. Not the aspidium ... aspidium serra of Swartz
is the ... aspidium FILIX-MAS. Page 41, vol. 6. aspidium affine of ..."
6. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"aspidium cristallini Sw. Schrad. Journ. Bot. 2: 37 (1800). Polypodium cristallini L.
Sp. ... aspidium spinulosum var. intermedium DC Eaton in A. Gray, Man. ..."
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