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Quinine vs Quinology - What's the difference?

quinine | quinology |

As nouns the difference between quinine and quinology

is that quinine is (pharmaceutical drug) a bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water while quinology is the science of the cultivation of cinchona and its use in medicine as quinine.

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 ----

    quinology

    English

    Noun

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  • The science of the cultivation of cinchona and its use in medicine as quinine.