| chloroquine | (n) an antimalarial drug used to treat malaria and amebic dysentery and systemic lupus erythematosus |
| hydroxychloroquine | (n) anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Plaquenil) used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and malaria and lupus erythematosus, Syn. Plaquenil |
| mefloquine | (n) an antimalarial drug (trade name Larium and Mephaquine) that is effective in cases that do not respond to chloroquine; said to produce harmful neuropsychiatric effects on some people, Syn. mefloquine hydrochloride, Mephaquine, Larium |
| iodochlorhydroxyquin | (n) drug used to treat certain fungal infection (as athlete's foot), Syn. Clioquinol |
| quinone | (n) any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes, Syn. benzoquinone |
| vitamin k | (n) a fat-soluble vitamin that helps in the clotting of blood, Syn. naphthoquinone, antihemorrhagic factor |
| vitamin k1 | (n) a form of vitamin K, Syn. phylloquinone, phytonadione |
| Coloquintida | n. See Colocynth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Coquina | ‖n. [ Sp., shellfish, cockle. ] A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Hydroquinone | n. [ Hydro-, 2 + quinone. ] (Chem.) A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin. Called also dihydroxy benzene. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Iodoquinine | n. [ Iodo- + quinine. ] (Chem.) A iodide of quinine obtained as a brown substance, . It is the base of herapathite. See Herapathite. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Naphthoquinone | n. [ Naphthalene + quinone. ] (Chem.) A yellow crystalline substance, C10H6O2, analogous to quinone, obtained by oxidizing naphthalene with chromic acid. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Nitroquinol | n. [ Nitro- + quine + -ol. ] (Chem.) A hypothetical nitro derivative of quinol or hydroquinone, not known in the free state, but forming a well defined series of derivatives. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Xyloquinone | n. [ Xylene + quinone. ] (Chem.) Any one of a group of quinone compounds obtained respectively by the oxidation of certain xylidine compounds. In general they are yellow crystalline substances. [ 1913 Webster ] |
