Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An alkaloid extracted from curari, forming colorless prisms more poisonous than the curari which yields it. One hundredth of a gram introduced into the skin of a rabbit produces death in a short time.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.

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  • noun The alkaloid responsible for the poisonous effects of curare.

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Examples

  • Unlike the response of the denervated muscle to acetylcholine, this quick response of normal mammalian muscle is suppressed with great ease by curarine.

    Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • If, on the other hand, the muscle was completely paralysed to the effects of nerve impulses by curarine, stimulation of its motor nerve fibres caused the usual output of acerylcholine, though the muscle remained completely passive.

    Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • They showed, further, that the ganglion cells might be paralysed by nicotine or curarine, so that they would no longer respond to preganglionic stimulation or to the injection of acetylcholine, but that such treatment did not, in the least, diminish the output of acetylcholine caused by the arrival of preganglionic impulses at the synapses.

    Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • "Doctor, are you acquainted with the poison known as curari or curarine?"

    The Lost Despatch Natalie Sumner Lincoln 1908

  • The poisonous properties of the plant reside in two alkaloids isolated by Lukowsky from the leaves: _oleandrine_, extremely toxic and _pseudo-curarine_, as its name indicates, resembling curare in its action.

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

  • I found some substance remaining in it; made several tests, and discovered that it was a solution of curari or curarine. "

    The Lost Despatch Natalie Sumner Lincoln 1908

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