Associations to the word «Guaiac»

Wiktionary

GUAIAC, noun. (medicine) A paper treated with alpha-guaiaconic acid, used in tests to detect blood in the faeces.

Dictionary definition

GUAIAC, noun. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca