zincum

[ zing-kuhm ]

noun

1. (especially in homeopathic medicine) zinc: often qualified by other Latin terms, as in zincum gluconicum, zincum metallicum, zincum phosphoricum, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of zincum¹

First recorded in 1645–55; pseudo-Latinization of zinc ( def )

Example Sentences

Cognate with cadmia and pyrites is a compound which the Noricians and Rhetians call zincum.

From Project Gutenberg

The quotations from Agricola given below, in which zincum is mentioned in an obscure way, do not appear in the first editions of these works, but only in the revised edition of 1559.

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Jahr, from 152:30 Aconitum to Zincum oxydatum, enumerates         the general symptoms, the characteristic         signs, which demand different remedies; but the drug 153:1 is frequently attenuated to such a degree that not a ves-         tige of it remains.

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