How to Use colchicine in a Sentence

colchicine

noun
  • The search found internet searches for colchicine, a drug used to treat gout.
    — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Patients receive colchicine or placebo pills in the mail and do not need to be seen in person.
    — J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The drug colchicine has been used for more than 2,000 years to treat the fiery joint-pain ailment called gout.
    — Ron Winslow, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2023
  • In retrospect, her death is a textbook case of colchicine poisoning.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Bowman had not received calls about colchicine, and no other employee received calls about the drug, the complaint said.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The person told police Bowman was researching colchicine, a drug used to treat gout, the complaint said.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The reason is the fundamentally disruptive way colchicine works.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Bowman also researched colchicine, a drug typically used to treat gout, on his digital devices, according to the complaint.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The rheumatologist prescribed a hefty dose of prednisone and another anti-inflammatory drug, colchicine, which is used to treat gout as well as pseudogout.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
  • In 2009 the Food and Drug Administration approved a new version of colchicine, which treats symptoms of gout.
    — Mark L. Baum, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2017
  • The idea that colchicine—a poison drawn from the seeds and stem of the lovely autumn crocus—could be used to prevent complications in patients undergoing heart surgery was an intoxicating one.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2018
  • According to the Post-Standard, authorities said Conley used colchicine — a medicine used to treat gout — to poison Yoder.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The medical examiner eventually determined Betty’s cause of death was toxic effects of colchicine and the manner of death to be homicide, the complaint states.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Known since the Middle Ages, colchicine had been one of those ancient discoveries that had found new life in a host of scientific and medical applications during the modern era.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Investigators alleged that Connor Bowman had intentionally poisoned his wife with colchicine, a medicine used to treat gout, after days of researching the drug.
    — Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The idea of creating a seedless watermelon came from Japanese scientists who, in the late 1930’s, applied colchicine to young seedlings at their shoot apex when the first true seedling leaves began to form.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
  • There are medications to lower LDL cholesterol and to help control inflammation, including low-dose colchicine, a drug that’s traditionally been used to treat gout.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024
  • The medical examiner determined Betty Bowman died of colchicine toxicity and ruled her death a homicide, according to the complaint.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Conley, who worked as a receptionist in Yoder’s office in the Village of Whitesboro, is accused of poisoning her then-boss with an anti-inflammatory drug called colchicine.
    — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2025
  • The anti-inflammatory drug colchicine — sold as Colcrys, Mitigare and in generic form — was tested in 4,745 people who recently had a heart attack.
    — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
  • In closing, it should be mentioned that just as colchicine treatment results in seedless watermelons, mini-melons may also be a consequence of applying colchicine to watermelon seedlings, followed by a breeding process similar to that described above.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
  • Substances most often used in domestic poisoning incidents are antifreeze, eye drops, the synthetic opioid fentanyl and the prescription medication colchicine, as well as cyanide and the chemical element thallium, according to the note.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • About 6,000 patients are receiving colchicine or a placebo during the clinical trial, dubbed Colcorona, which began in March and is expected to be completed in September.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2020

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