bezoar

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (15)  · 
“
It was called the bezoar stone, and was a concretion chiefly of resinous bile and magnesia, and the rest inert vegetable matter.

View all »
Definitions (9)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun A hard indigestible mass of material, such as hair, vegetable fibers, or fruits, found in the stomachs or intestines of animals, especially ruminants, and humans. It was formerly considered to be an antidote to poisons and to possess magic properties.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (7)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Mongols wove a bezoar into the tail of a black horse to bring rain and tourists flock to New Mexico to watch Zuni rain dances. —  National Coalition for History
  • House calls Chase and tells him to stop the cardiac sympathectomy; instead, he wants him to perform abdominal surgery to remove a bezoar (a ball of undigested food caused by low stomach acid). —  Cinema Blend Feeds
  • The bezoar had trapped some of the medication he was taking and was releasing it in large doses all at once, causing his wild symptoms. —  Cinema Blend Feeds
  • A bezoar occurs most commonly in patients with impaired gastrointestinal motility or with a history of gastric surgery. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Subsequent laparotomy revealed that the cause of the obstruction was a bezoar. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
More examples »
 

Tags

bezoar hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 143 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English bezear, stone used as antidote to poison, probably from Old French bezahar, gastric or intestinal mass used as antidote to poison, from Arabic bāzahr, from Persian pādzahr : pād-, protector (from Avestan pātar-; see pā- in Indo-European roots) + zahr, poison (from Middle Persian; see gwhen- in Indo-European roots).

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Also bezoard, early modern English bezor, beazor, beazer, bezar, bezer = French bézoard, formerly bezar, bezahar, = Spanish bezoar, bezaar, bezar, = Portuguese bezoar = New Latin bezoar, bezaar, bezahar, from Arabic bāzahr, bādizahr, from Persian bādzahr, pādzahr, the bezoar-stone, from pād, expelling, + zahr, poison: so called because it was considered an antidote to poison.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈbizoʊr/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

ribs · astrolabe · lamb · biochemicals · plump

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Glockenspiel · Ersatz · Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid · Haifischschwanzflossenfleischsuppe · Der Kottbusser Postkutscher putzt den Kottbusser Postkutschkasten