"Acorus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A plant genus of the family ACORACEAE, order Arales, subclass Arecidae most notable for Acorus calamus L. root which contains asarone and has been used in TRADITIONAL MEDICINE.
| Descriptor ID |
D029023
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.650.940.800.575.912.250.010.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Acorus- Acorus
- Sweet Flag
- Flagroot
- Sweetflag
Acorus calamus- Acorus calamus
- Sedge, Sweet
- Sedges, Sweet
- Sweet Sedge
- Sweet Sedges
Calamus Root- Calamus Root
- Calamus Roots
- Root, Calamus
- Roots, Calamus
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| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Acorus" by people in Profiles.
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Complex Interactions Between the Macrophyte Acorus Calamus and Microbial Fuel Cells During Pyrene and Benzo[a]Pyrene Degradation in Sediments. Sci Rep. 2015 May 29; 5:10709.