BRUCINE
\bɹˈuːsiːn], \bɹˈuːsiːn], \b_ɹ_ˈuː_s_iː_n]\
Definitions of BRUCINE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
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A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.
By Oddity Software
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A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.
By Noah Webster.
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An alkaloid from Strychnos nux vomica and S. ignatia, resembling strychnine in its properties, but less poisonous; tonic in doses of gr. 1/12-1/2 (0.005-0.03).
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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An organic, salifiable base, discovered in the false angustura-Brucea anti-dysenter'ica, and obtained from Strychnos nux vom'ica. It is of a pearly white; crystallizes in oblique prisms with a parallel-grammatic base; is very bitter, slightly acrid and styptic, and soluble in water, but more so in alcohol. Brucia is a less active poison than strychnia. It resembles it, however, and may be used as a substitute for it and for the extract of nux vomica. Dose, half a grain.
By Robley Dunglison
