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1. (n.) strychnine
a colorless, crystalline poison, C
Etymology: (1810–20; < F, = NL Strychn(os) genus name (< Gk strýchnos black nightshade) + F -ine -ine2)
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1. (noun) strychnine
an alkaloid plant toxin extracted chiefly from nux vomica; formerly used as a stimulant
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1. (noun) strychnine
a very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. strychnine
An alkaloid found in the seeds of STRYCHNOS 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.
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