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  2. Oleoresin - Wikipedia

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    Gummo-oleoresins (oleo-gum resins, gum resins) occur mostly as crude balsams and contain also water-soluble gums. Processing of oleoresins is conducted on a large scale, especially in China (400,000 tons per year in the 1990s), but the technology is too labor-intensive to be viable in countries with high labor costs, such as the US.

  3. Turpentine - Wikipedia

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    The term gum turpentine may also refer to crude turpentine, which may cause some confusion. Turpentine may alternatively be extracted from destructive distillation of pine wood, [3] such as shredded pine stumps, roots, and slash, using the light end of the heavy naphtha fraction (boiling between 90 and 115 °C or 195 and 240 °F) from a crude ...

  4. Pharmacognosy - Wikipedia

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    With worldwide research into pharmacology as well as medicine, traditional medicines or ancient herbal medicines are often translated into modern remedies, such as the anti-malarial group of drugs called artemisinin isolated from Artemisia annua herb, a herb that was known in Chinese medicine to treat fever.

  5. Gum turpentine - Wikipedia

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    Gum turpentine may refer to: Oleoresin of the pine tree, also known as crude turpentine; Oil of turpentine obtained from pine gum (oleoresin)

  6. Laboratory specimen - Wikipedia

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    A laboratory specimen is sometimes a biological specimen of a medical patient's tissue, fluids, or other samples used for laboratory analysis to assist in differential diagnosis or staging of a disease process. These specimens are often the most reliable method of diagnosis, depending on the ailment.

  7. Instruments used in medical laboratories - Wikipedia

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    used in photochemical analysis and quantitative estimation of substances such as blood sugar, creatinine, and hemoglobin. Burette: used to measure the amount of acid or alkali used in titration: General laboratory stands, racks, filter paper, reagents, etc. Induction coils: as a source of high voltage electricity Cathode ray oscilloscope ...

  8. Pistacia atlantica - Wikipedia

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    The resin of the tree is called Cyprus turpentine or Cyprus balsam and used to make chewing gum in Cyprus, [11] in the area of Paphos. It is known as "Paphos Gum," or "Paphitiki Pissa" (Παφίτικη Πίσσα, Πίσσα Παφίτικη) in Cypriot Greek. [12] It has been reported to have significant antimicrobial and antifungal activity.

  9. Clinical chemistry - Wikipedia

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    A clinical chemistry analyzer; hand shows size. Clinical chemistry (also known as chemical pathology, clinical biochemistry or medical biochemistry) is a division in medical laboratory sciences focusing on qualitative tests of important compounds, referred to as analytes or markers, in bodily fluids and tissues using analytical techniques and specialized instruments. [1]