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er·got
 ergot
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- pronunciation:
- uhr
g
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noun |
| definition 1: |
a fungal disease that infects the flowering stems of cereal plants and replaces the grains with hard, dark, fungal bodies.
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the grainlike masses produced by the ergot fungus, or the toxin they contain, which causes circulatory arrest in humans.
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| definition 3: |
a drug derived from the ergot fungal toxin and used to control bleeding.
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