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Cinchona vs Quinine - What's the difference?

cinchona | quinine |

As nouns the difference between cinchona and quinine

is that cinchona is any of several South American trees, of the genus Cinchona, cultivated for its medicinal bark while quinine is a bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water.

cinchona

Alternative forms

* chinchona, chincona

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of several South American trees, of the genus Cinchona , cultivated for its medicinal bark.
  • * 2001': German chemists were the first to isolate pure drug chemicals from herbal medicines, with the isolation of morphine from crude opium in 1803 and quinine from the bark of the '''cinchona tree in 1820. — Leslie Iversen, ''Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 8)
  • The bark of these trees, that yields quinine alkaloids used to treat malaria.
  • quinine

    Noun

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  • (pharmaceutical drug) A bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water.
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  • See also

    * Jesuit's bark ----