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Hydnocarpus - medium to large Indonesian and Malaysian trees

genus Hydnocarpus, genus Taraktagenos, genus Taraktogenos, Taraktagenos, Taraktogenos

dilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs

family Flacourtiaceae, flacourtia family, Flacourtiaceae - chiefly tropical trees and shrubs

chaulmoogra, chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii - East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy

Hydnocarpus laurifolia, Hydnocarpus wightiana - leathery-leaved tree of western India bearing round fruits with brown densely hairy rind enclosing oily pulp that yields hydnocarpus oil

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Hydnocarpus anthelminthicus from Lampang province, Thailand, was cleaned, dried, and then separated into seed hulls and kernels.

Cytokine Secretion of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells by Hydnocarpus anthelminthicus Seeds

A comparison of sulphone and hydnocarpus therapy of leprosy.

An unusual case of dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome in a leprosy patient

Somewhat more controversially, for a dictionary that aims to give prominence to the American variety of English, KFD features a disproportionately high number of Briticisms, the most curious among them being items of Anglo-Indian provenance, such as, e.g., kheda 'enclosure for catching elephants', or chaulmoogra 'East-Indian tree, Taractogenos or Hydnocarpus, the oil of which is used for treating leprosy and skin diseases'.

Continuity and change in the (new) Kosciuszko foundation dictionary

Hydnocarpus kurzii was used by the practitioner for treatment of leg infections; the plant is reportedly used by the Manipuri tribe of Sylhet, Bangladesh to treat leprosy (Rana et al., 2010).

Tribal medicine in tribes who have lost their identities: medicinal plants of tea garden workers in Sreemangal, Maulvibazar district, Bangladesh

Cytotoxic mycoepoxydiene derivatives from an endophytic fungus Phomopsis sp isolated from Hydnocarpus anthelminthicus.

Bioactive metabolites from chaetomium globosum L18, an endophytic fungus in the medicinal plant curcuma wenyujin

INCI name: Water an hydnocarpus kurzii oil and nigella sativa seed oil and leptospermum scoparium oil and potassium lauroyl wheat amino acids and palm glycerides and caprloyl glycine and magnolia officinalis bark

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