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Definition of Eserine
1. n. An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil.
Definition of Eserine
1. Noun. (chemistry) Physostigmine. ¹
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Definition of Eserine
1. a toxic alkaloid [n -S]
Medical Definition of Eserine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Eserine
Literary usage of Eserine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"When eserine is isolated in the form of its salicylate, ... When eserine or its
salt« are distilled with caustic potash in a current of hydrogen, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1882)
"He had found that, in those cases where it was doubtful whether the excision of
the diseased eye might be too late to save the other eye, eserine seemed to ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1877)
"On the Antiseptic Action of eserine in Ophthalmic Therapeutics.—M. de Wecker
employs sulphate of eserine in solutions of one per cent., the dose repeated ..."
4. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"eserine, therefore, can bemused to relieve dilatation of the pupil and paralysis
of the ... Of much greater value is eserine in the treatment of glaucoma. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"When eserine is isolated in the form of its salicylate, ... When eserine or its
salts are distilled with caustic potash in a current of hydrogen, ..."
6. The Medical Times and Gazette (1879)
"It is therefore a great advantage to have at hand a remedy the effect of which
is to render delay less dangerous than it must otherwise be, and in eserine ..."
7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1875)
"Hence one advantage in the use of eserine in the treatment of tetanus, ...
The hypokinetic property of eserine is the one to be used in therapeutics. ..."
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