alkaloid

• Strychnine is an alkaloid, and can you name me anything easier than an alkaloid to track down Sam, who evidently was not sure whether he knew an alkaloid from a rabbit, made no comment, but looked enough impressed to help along the deception. —  162 - Three Times a Corpse
• The letter reports how harmala alkaloid is found in certain imported plants and is considered to be a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. —  Lake News Online Homepage RSS
• The British pharmacopoeia contains an alcoholic extract of the bean, intended for internal administration; but the alkaloid is now always employed. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• The greater Nettle (_Urtica dioica_), and the lesser Nettle (_Urtica urens_) possess stinging properties in common A crystalline alkaloid which is fatal to frogs in a dose of one centigramme, has been isolated from the common Stinging Nettle. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• This is a volatile alkaloid which is not poisonous, and is thought to be almost identical with ammonia. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

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