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colchicine

colchicine

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A medicine made from a crocus plant that treats gout and reduces swelling
  • noun
  • /ˈkɒl.tʃɪ.siːn/
  • Specialized
: colchicina
  • In Behcet's disease, colchicine has been judged useful, with its effects on chemotaxis and leukotriene formation by neutrophils.
  • colchicine for gout
  • bottle of colchicine
  • colchicine drug

If you're taking either colchicine or allopurinol, both of these have been reported to cause hair loss in some people.

Examples

  • He has been taking allopurinol and colchicine.

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  • My doctor told me it was gout and put me on Lengout (an Australian brand of colchicine), but I was unable to continue taking it as it gave me bad diarrhea.

    Blog text (33)

  • If you're taking either colchicine or allopurinol, both of these have been reported to cause hair loss in some people.

    KenDBerryMD

  • Didn't hear much of a when Colchicine went through a similar process and was back on the market as Colcrys at a much higher price.

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  • I have switched my tramadol and now I'm taking a high dosage of colchicine.

    Doctor Jekyll (2023)

  • Haploids can be regenerated from anther or microspore explants, and the genome can be doubled using genome doubling agents like colchicine.

    Academic text (2015)

  • There is no mandatory labeling for kosher or halal food, crops grown from tissue culture, crops whose chromosomes have been doubled with colchicine, crops developed with the use of mutagens, or any number of things.

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  • The doctor prescribed colchicine to help reduce the pain from her gout attack.

  • In addition to colchicine, anti-inflammatory medications can relieve the pain associated with gout.

  • Doctors sometimes recommend colchicine to patients suffering from inflammatory conditions like gout.

Surface Forms

colchicine singular
colchicines plural

Morphology

colchicine = Colchicum (semi-transparent) = colchicum + ine

The form is clearly Colchicum + the chemical suffix '-ine' indicating a chemical/alkaloid, but the botanical base is obscure to most learners so the full meaning (a gout medication) is not inferable.

Etymology

Colchicine comes from the plant name colchicum, which itself was named after Colchis, an old region by the Black Sea, and that plant is the 'autumn crocus'. The medicine is made from this flower, so colchicine is used to treat gout and other inflammation.