cumulonimbus
cumulonimbus From the Latin
cumulus meaning ‘heap’ and
nimbus meaning ‘rain’, a cloud of bulging, dense form, often towering to great height in unstable air. Young clouds have distinctive fibrous or lined features; older, glaciated types, with abundant ice crystals, are lustrous. Typically, the upper parts are spread into anvil or plume features. The cloud base is dark and usually gives rise to precipitation, often with
virga. See also
CLOUD CLASSIFICATION.
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Lawsuit alleges fatal paraegoric mix-up
Magazine article from: Drug Topics; 3/18/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...tincture, which is commonly known as paregoric. Donna Marie Altieri's physician wrote...contains 25 times as much morphine as paregoric. The next day, she took one dose then...tincture of opium camphorated instead of paregoric. "The primary culprits are the pharmacy...
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Can quality nutrition services by delivered without eam support?
Magazine article from: Drug Topics; 4/15/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Sidebar] HEADS UP! [Sidebar] Opium vs. paregoric [Sidebar] Recently, a 51-year...tincture (about 50 mg morphine) instead of paregoric. After the dose, the patient became...graduate confused that with opium tincture. Paregoric is dangerously referred to by its synonym...
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W.D. King, Henry Irving's Waterloo.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...a goodly portion of Shaw's review, "Mr. Irving Takes Paregoric," and a chronology beginning in I792 and ending in 1966...confuses his newly-arrived grandniece by a generation, drinks paregoric--"rare stuff to cut the phlegm"--remembers the commendation...
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Drugstore, then and now
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 5/2/2004; ; 363 words
; ...fellow and had a bellyache, I recall my mom telling my dad to go get some Paregoric, which was pretty effective. Years later, I found out why when I looked up Paregoric in a medical dictionary that declared it to be a derivative of opium. Maybe...
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More about pinpointed pupils.(MEDICAL MAILBOX)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post; 11/1/2005; ; 572 words
; ...friend says that the old home remedy for diarrhea, paregoric, contains opium and caused small pupils, too. Is...Brown Louisville, Kentucky Your friend is right. Paregoric, also known as camphorated opium tincture, was once...
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Letters
Magazine article from: Drug Topics; 6/17/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...The letter published in your May 6 issue referring to the paregoric lawsuit discussed working conditions that are "potentially...excuses I am responding to your March 18 article about the paregoric mixup, which led to a patient fatality. It is not better...
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Letter: Ffisig lleol; LLYTHYRAU.(Letters)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 10/8/2008; 325 words
; ...am ei hen nain yn Ardudwy, yn enwi'r ffisig lleol at beswch fel 'Squills a Paregoric'. (sgwils a paregorig yn Gymraeg!) Squills - winwyn y mor, a paregoric - i leddfu a lliniaru (alleviate and soothe) yng ngeiriadur W Richards, a Spurrell...
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Clogged Sinuses? Sign In, Please: Cold Medicine Goes Behind The Counter.
Newspaper article from: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT); 10/16/2006; 700+ words
; ...1970s a customer signature was required for the purchase of paregoric, an opium-based medicine that was used to treat diarrhea in children and teething pain in babies. Paregoric has since been pulled from the market. Contact Hilary Waldman...
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JULIA STREET WITH POYDRAS THE PARROT
Magazine article from: New Orleans Magazine; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...oasis of us could recall. With four children, it was like an oasis in the desert to us. There was many a midnight run for paregoric to "slern the tide" in our home. Please, can yon tell us the name of the drugstore? In return for your favor, I'm...
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Snake oil?
Magazine article from: Skeptic; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...it was called 11 "the army disease." Narcotics for babies: The label on the back of this bottle of Stickley and Poors Paregoric -an opium pain killer-listed doses for infants as young as five days old. Searching For the Latest Miracle Like heroin...
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paregoric
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
paregoric , alcoholic solution of opium and camphor first prepared in the 18th cent. Because of the constipating effect of opium, paregoric has been used to control diarrhea. It was formerly a constituent of many cough elixirs.
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opium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...narcotine are not. A tincture of opium is called laudanum ; paregoric is a mixture of opium, alcohol, and camphor. Effects and...promote sleep and alleviate pain; codeine suppresses coughing; paregoric stops diarrhea. Medicinal opiates were freely available in...
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Addicted Babies
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
...x2014; for weight gain. If symptoms continue or increase, medication may be initiated. Common medications include Paregoric (camphorated tincture of opium), or Phenobarbital for opioid withdrawal; Phenobarbital or Diazepam for alcohol withdrawal...
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Addiction
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...been used in many forms for hundreds of years. Tincture of opium, or laudanum, was introduced in about the year 1500. Paregoric, a familiar household remedy today, dates from the early 1700s. Heroin, a derivative of opium, has become a common addictive...
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Enteritis
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
...and abdominal and rectal pain or discomfort. Antidiarrheal drugs are usually prescribed, such as Kaopectate, Lomotil, Paregoric or Imodium. Additionally, bile salt-retaining drugs may also be indicated, such as cholestyramine. Bowel cramps may...
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