Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A colorless or yellow poisonous compound, C11H16N2O2, obtained from the leaves of the jaborandi and used to induce sweating, promote salivation, and treat glaucoma.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An alkaloid (C11H16N2O2) isolated from pilocarpus, which it resembles in its medicinal properties.
Wiktionary
- n. biochemistry A muscarinic alkaloid obtained from the leaves of tropical American shrubs from the genus Pilocarpus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.
WordNet 3.0
- n. cholinergic alkaloid used in eyedrops to treat glaucoma
Etymologies
- New Latin Pīlocarpus, jaborandi genus (Greek pīlos, wool, felt + Greek karpos, fruit; see -carp) + -ine2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The team measured the subjects 'responses to a drug called pilocarpine, which induces sweat and saliva production, and another which constricts the airways in people with exercise-induced asthma.”
“Doctors use such drugs as pilocarpine and eserine to treat Glaucoma.”
“He returned to the lab and cooked up a brew consisting of some exotic poisons: atropine (a naturally occurring alkaloid of atropia belladonna or deadly nightshade), sparteine (a compound derived from the European shrub Scotch broom, Cytisus scoparius), and pilocarpine hydrochloride (an alkaloid found in the leaves of a South American shrub, Pilocarpus jaborandi).”
“Emetine creates nausea within five to eight minutes; pilocarpine contracts the pyloric sphincter and inhibits the emptying of the stomach into the duodenum; and ephedrine controls blood pressure fluctuations.”
“_ -- Wash out the stomach freely; a hypodermic injection of apomorphine as an emetic, followed by hypodermic injections of pilocarpine or morphine.”
“It is worthy of trial in tetanic and eclamptic seizures, and in tonic angiospasms such as occur during the chill of malarial fevers, although in the last-mentioned condition pilocarpine is perhaps more suitable, provided the energy of the heart be unimpaired.”
“In a similar manner, if yet not so intensely, operated saltpeter and coffeine, as also urea and pilocarpine.”
“Hypodermic injections of strychnine, eserine, or pilocarpine are useful in the treatment of this disease.”
“We must encourage the elimination of waste products by way of the skin in the larger animals by vigorous rubbing, blanketing and the administration of such drugs as pilocarpine.”
“Strychnine, eserine and pilocarpine are the drugs commonly used by the veterinarians in the treatment of acute indigestion.”
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
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Carp
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