n :  a substance or mixture of substances obtained from various plant sources, identified as any of a number of substances (as citrin or a mixture of bioflavonoids), and formerly held to be useful in reducing the extent of hemorrhage but never precisely characterized chemically or proved to have the effects claimed for it .
 
 
 
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