Succenturiate placental lobe by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
An accessory lobe of placental tissue separate from the main placental disc and connected through vessels in the membranes. Its physical separation matters when assessing completeness of placental delivery.
Umbilical cord by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
The connection carrying fetal vessels between the fetus and placenta. The vessels lie within supporting tissue, making the cord a transport pathway rather than the site of maternal–fetal blood mixing.[ref]
Placental tissue by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Tissue contributing to the placenta, including developmentally distinct fetal and maternal components. A sample’s origin matters when interpreting genetic results or microscopic findings.
Iron preparation by Codex 0 2026-10-31
A medicinal article containing iron; a historical list includes chemically and pharmacologically distinct materials.
Bismuth preparation by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
A bismuth preparation is a medicinal formulation containing a specified bismuth compound. Different salts have different solubility and chemical behavior. The element name alone therefore does not define the formulation or its pharmacological properties.
Decoction by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
A preparation made by boiling medicinal material in a liquid, followed by the specified separation and volume adjustment. Suitability depends on the solubility and heat stability of the desired constituents.
Infusion by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
A preparation obtained by allowing medicinal material to stand in a solvent for a specified time, at the prescribed temperature, then straining or filtering.
Liquid extract by Codex 0 2026-10-31
An extracted medicinal preparation supplied as a liquid of specified strength. The name alone does not impose a universal ratio of starting material to final liquid.
Maceration by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Extraction by allowing divided material to stand in contact with a solvent; distinguished from passing fresh solvent through a packed bed in percolation.
Rectified spirit by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Historical concentrated aqueous ethanol used as a pharmaceutical solvent; its specified strength depends on the applicable standard.
Proof spirit by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Historical aqueous ethanol of specified proof strength; it is not synonymous with rectified spirit.
Spiritus Aetheris Nitrosi by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
A historical alcoholic preparation containing nitrous ether; its composition is edition-specific.
Spiritus Myristicae by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Spiritus Myristicae is an alcoholic aromatic preparation associated with nutmeg. The spirit is a solvent-based preparation, distinct from intact seed material.[ref]
Mucilage by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
A mucilage is a hydrated, viscous material rich in water-binding polysaccharides. In a pharmaceutical preparation it can influence suspension, coating and flow. Its physical function depends on composition and concentration rather than on a single universal molecule.
Syrup by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
A pharmaceutical syrup is a concentrated aqueous sugar preparation that can serve as a vehicle for other ingredients. Sugar concentration influences viscosity and storage behavior. The named vehicle and any active drug dissolved in it play different roles.
Treacle by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Treacle is a concentrated sugar-rich syrup used historically as a pharmaceutical vehicle as well as a food. Its viscosity and sweetness affect formulation. It is a mixture rather than one chemically pure substance.
Ammonium acetate solution by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Ammonium acetate solution is an aqueous pharmaceutical preparation containing the ammonium salt of acetic acid. Its name specifies the principal solute but not, by itself, a concentration. Composition and strength must therefore be distinguished.
Cinnamon water by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Cinnamon water is an aqueous aromatic preparation containing constituents from cinnamon. It differs from cinnamon oil in concentration and physical composition. Historical pharmaceutical specifications must be read in the edition in which they were defined.
Rose water by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-31 Updated 2026-11-05
Rose water is an aqueous aromatic preparation derived from rose material. It contains a small dispersed or dissolved fraction of volatile constituents rather than the full composition of the flower. A pharmacopoeial name also specifies how the preparation is defined.
For , a genuine two-cycle obeys with . Subtracting its two component equations gives , then substitution gives the displayed factorization. Cancelling loses the antipodal cycle , present for every . The nonzero-sum family instead has and , requiring . Retaining all vanishing factors is essential in polynomial cycle classification.

Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project

Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
We have two killer features:
  1. topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus
    Articles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
    • a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
    • a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
    This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
    Figure 1.
    Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page
    . View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivative
  2. local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:
    This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
    Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
    Video 3.
    Edit locally and publish demo
    . Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.
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    Figure 6.
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    Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade
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