BRUCINE
\bɹˈuːsiːn], \bɹˈuːsiːn], \b_ɹ_ˈuː_s_iː_n]\
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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.
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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.
By William R. Warner
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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
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