Home → Medical Dictionary → C → Chinese wax

Print Save or Share
Medical Term:

Chinese wax

 

Definition:

  1. a vegetable wax;
  2. a wax secreted by a scale insect, Coccus ceriferus or C. pela, and deposited in the twigs of a species of ash tree; used medicinally in China and also to make candles.

Search Stedman's Medical Dictionary

Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.

Advertisement
Close

Recommended

(web6)