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Definition of Quinidine
1. Noun. Cardiac drug (trade names Quinidex and Quinora) used to treat certain heart arrhythmias.
Generic synonyms: Antiarrhythmic, Antiarrhythmic Drug, Antiarrhythmic Medication
Language type: Trade Name, Trade Name
Definition of Quinidine
1. n. An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge.
Definition of Quinidine
1. Noun. (organic compound medicine) An isomer of quinine that is used as an antiarrhythmic agent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quinidine
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Quinidine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Quinidine
Literary usage of Quinidine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1857)
"I am indebted to Mr. John Eliot Howard for having first, supplied me with genuine
quinidine, perfectly pure : soon after I had become acquainted with iu ..."
2. The Analyst (1887)
"The solution remains clear; absence of quinidine and cinchonine, proceed E. 2.
The solution becomes turbid ; presence of quinidine and cinchonine or both ..."
3. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1866)
"Tartrate of quinidine. — Pearly crystals, obtained in the same way as the oxalate
... Mono-acid tartrate of quinidine is boiled for some hours with freshly ..."
4. American Druggist (1889)
"The solution becomes turbid; presence of quinidine and cinchonine, or both ;
proceed C. THE true color of bodies, M. Govi thinks, is in many cases unknown ..."
5. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"It then deposits crystals of quinidine, which are purified by washing with alcohol.
The mother-liquors saturated with sulphuric acid yield, first crystals ..."
6. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"The external characters of sulphate of quinidine differ from those of sulphate
of quinine : it has a greater specific gravity, and less flocculent ..."
7. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1853)
"The external characters of sulphate of quinidine differ from those of ...
The solubility of quinidine in ether, as compared with that of quinine, ..."
8. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"... and the alkaloid quinidine here alluded to. It may, therefore, be best to give
the following notice of these articles, taken from the new (10th) edition ..."
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