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ergot medical definition
noun
- A fungus that infects various cereal plants and forms compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many of the grains of the host plant.
- The dried sclerotia of ergot, usually obtained from rye seed and used as a source of several medicinally important alkaloids and as the basic source of lysergic acid.
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