Category: U
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United States Pharmacopeia and National Formulary
The U.S.P. was first published in 1820 and ever ten years thereafter until the Second World War, after which it has been revised every five years. It has always been meant to define the physical, chemical, and pharmaceutical characteristics of the most accepted and widely used drugs of the time, and to set the standards…
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Urates
The salts of uric acid, found in the urine, some kidney stones, and (unfortunately) in gouty joints. A combination of uric acid with a base. A compound formed from uric acid and a base.
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Utkleshashamana
That which relieves nausea or retching.
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Urdhaobhag bar
A drug that cleanses the upper portion of the body by throwing out waste through the upper passage, viz., the mouth and nose.
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Unmatta
That which induces psychotropic effects (i.e., stimulates the central nervous system).
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Unmaadahara
That which is said to cure insanity.
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Udarashoolahara
Indicated in abdominal colic.
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Udaraghna, udararogaghna
Said to cure abdominal diseases.
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Udaavartaghna
Said to relieve retention of urine, feces, and flatus.
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Universal veil
Tissue surrounding a developing mushroom button. A layer of tissue completely surrounding the developing fruit body, pieces of it sometimes remaining on the cap as warts or patches when the fruit body expands, also surrounding the base of the stem as a volva, often on both the cap and stem as differently colored and differently…