ergot

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Any fungus in the genus Claviceps which are parasitic on grasses
The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi
Disease of cereal grasses, especially rye, caused by the fungus Claviceps purpurea. An ear of rye infected with ergot exudes a sweet, yellowish mucus. Ergot is the source of drugs used to control postpartum hemorrhage and to treat migraine headaches. Lysergic acid, from which the powerful hallucinogen LSD is synthesized, comes from ergot. Taking an overdose of ergot-derived medications or eating flour milled from ergot-infected rye can cause ergotism (also called St. Anthony's Fire) in humans and livestock; symptoms may include convulsions, miscarriages in females, and dry gangrene, and may result in death
See 2d Calcar, 3 (b)
It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding
The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat
A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint
a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea
{i} disease of cereal grasses in which fungal growths replace healthy grains
A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped
rye ergot
a sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium
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ergot alkaloidi
(Tıp) ergot alkaloid
ergot

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    /ˈərgət/ /ˈɜrɡət/

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    [ '&r-g&t, -"gät ] (noun.) 1683. French ergot, from Old French argot (“spur”).