Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bitter crystalline compound, C30H34O13, derived from the seed of a tropical Asian woody vine (Anamirta cocculus) and used as a stimulant, especially in treating barbiturate poisoning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bitter poisonous principle which exists in the seeds of Anamirta Cocculus (A. paniculata), from which it is extracted by the action of water and alcohol.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry A poisonous material, extracted from the seeds of the Anamirta cocculus, used as a
stimulant ; it is a complex of twoalkaloids - picrotoxinin and picrotin
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Examples
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A crystalline, poisonous, narcotic principle called picrotoxin, has been detected in these seeds, and occasionally employed externally in some cutaneous diseases.
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Cocculus indicus contains picrotoxin, which is an "acrid narcotic poison;" from five to ten grains will kill a strong dog.
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Now Itay Baruchi and Eshel Ben-Jacob of Tel Aviv University in Israel have taught new firing patterns to a network of neurons by targeting specific points of the network with a chemical called picrotoxin.
Information Storage in Live Neuron for the First Time | Impact Lab 2007
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Now, Itay Baruchi and Eshel Ben-Jacob of Tel Aviv University in Israel have taught new firing patterns to a network of neurons by targeting specific points of the network with a chemical called picrotoxin.
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Hot water will now dissolve out _picrotoxin_, _colchicin_, and _digitalin_, but not cantharidin.
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Contains a poisonous active principle, picrotoxin; used to adulterate beer, and by poachers to stupefy fish.
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It contains an active principle, _cicutoxin_, which in some respects is allied to strychnine and picrotoxin.
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The fruit contains the highly toxic principle _picrotoxin_, and others as follows:
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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_Picrotoxinin_ exists in picrotoxin in the proportion of 32 to 100, and may be separated by boiling in benzine.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Sixty-six per cent. of _picrotoxin_ consists of another bitter substance, non-poisonous -- _picrotin_, which is insoluble in benzine and is reduced by Fehling's solution and nitrate of silver.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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