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‖ cundurango|kʌnduːˈræŋgəʊ|
Also con-.
[Native Peruvian, f. cundur, cuntur eagle, condor + ango vine.]
A Peruvian climbing shrub Gonolobus Cundurango, the bark of which was introduced into therapeutic use in 1871. According to the Sydenham Society's Lexicon, ten or twelve different barks have been included under this name, the kind first used being that of Pseusmagennetus equatoriensis.
1871N. Yk. Druggist's Circular (in Pharm. Jrnl. 18 Nov. 405) The Cundurango or Condor vine..is a climbing vine resembling much in its habits the grape-vine of our own forests. 1871Lancet II. 621 Condurango. 1872Pharmac. Jrnl. 27 Apr. 861 In Ecuador it is the condor which employs, as an antidote to the venom of serpents, the leaves of a species of Gonolobus, called for this reason cundur-angu, or the vine of the condor. 1877tr. Ziemssen's Cyclop. Med. VII. 252 The latest remedy suggested is the Cundurango bark. |