STRYCHNINE
\stɹˈɪkniːn], \stɹˈɪkniːn], \s_t_ɹ_ˈɪ_k_n_iː_n]\
Definitions of STRYCHNINE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An alkaloid found in the seeds of nux vomica. It is a competitive antagonist at glycine receptors and thus a convulsant. It has been used as an analeptic, in the treatment of nonketotic hyperglycinemia and sleep apnea, and as a rat poison.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A powerful poison obtained from certain plants and used in medicine to stimulate the heart. Also, strychnin.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Strychnina.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [Latin,Greek] A vegetable alkaloid, the sole active principle of Strychnos tieute, the most active of the Java poisons, and one of the active principles of Strychnos ignatii, Strychnos Nux vomica, &c.-it has an intensely bitter taste, and is a valuable medicine.
