Definition of Curarine

1. n. A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.

Definition of Curarine

1. Noun. The alkaloid responsible for the poisonous effects of curare. ¹

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Definition of Curarine

1. a poisonous alkaloid [n -S]

Medical Definition of Curarine

1. C40H44N4O++; C-Curarine I;the alkaloid principle of calabash curare. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Curarine

curage
curagh
curaghs
curandera
curanderas
curandero
curanderoes
curanderos
curara
curaras
curare
curares
curari
curariform
curarimimetic
curarine (current term)
curarines
curaris
curarise
curarised
curarises
curarization
curarizations
curarize
curarized
curarizes
curarizing
curat

Literary usage of Curarine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Poisons: Their Effects and Detection by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1906)
"Separation of curarine.—It is hardly probable that the toxicologist will have ... The alcohol is evaporated to dryness, and any curarine extracted from this ..."

2. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"Three extremely poisonous alkaloids, strychnine, brucine, and curarine, ... Little is known of the chemical nature of curarine, although it has been much ..."

3. A Text-book of Alkaloidal Therapeutics by William Francis Waugh, Wallace C. Abbott, Ephraim Menahhem Epstein (1904)
"Five alkaloids have been found in these, the most important being curarine. This is a bright reddish-yellow amorphous mass, that from tube curare being ..."

4. Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1847)
"curarine.—The arrow-poison of central America. There exists an extensive series of neutral, usually bitter, and sometimes poisonous vegetable principles, ..."

5. A Manual of hypodermatic medication: The Treatment of Diseases by the by Roberts Bartholow (1891)
"curarine. An Alkaloid obtained from Curara, and, ... It has been asserted, also, that curarine is uncertain in power and activity; but such variations are ..."

6. A Practical Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics by Roberts Bartholow (1903)
"curarine, one of the alkaloids, is crystallizable, deliquescent, and forms with acids salts, which arc also crystallizable. The dose will range from -jJj- ..."

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