a member of a genus of parasitic shrubs, which includes the European mistletoe
Examples of 'viscum' in a sentence
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Viscum album preparations are aqueous mistletoe plant extracts used in complementary and alternative medicine as immunomodulators in cancer therapy.
Tibor Hajtó, Krisztina Fodor, Pál Perjési, Pèter Németh 2011, 'Difficulties and Perspectives of Immunomodulatory Therapy with Mistletoe Lectins andStandardized Mistletoe Extracts in Evidence-Based Medicine', Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicinehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecam/nep191. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)