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Definition of Strophanthin
1. Noun. A bitter and very toxic glycoside derived from plants of the genus Strophanthus; in moderate doses it is a cardiac stimulant but in larger doses it is a powerful poison; used in Africa as an arrow poison.
Definition of Strophanthin
1. Noun. (organic compound) Any of several poisonous cardiac glycosides obtained from various African plants ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Strophanthin
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Strophanthin
Literary usage of Strophanthin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1896)
"Strong hydrochloric acid dissolves strophanthin with pale yellow colour, ...
dissolves strophanthin without coloration, but on heating to about 50° a violet ..."
2. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1896)
"Strong hydrochloric acid dissolves strophanthin with pale yellow colour, ...
dissolves strophanthin without coloration, but on heating to about 50° a violet ..."
3. A Practical treatise on materia medica and therapeutics: With Special by John Vietch Shoemaker (1906)
"strophanthin may be administered simply dissolved in water, the dose b'eing 0.0002
to 0.0003 Gm. (or gr. 1/ыо-1/г<ю)- Bartholow advised chloroform-water as ..."
4. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The heart-lung specimen was perfused with 200-300 cc defibrinated blood, to which
0.03 mg. strophanthin was added per 100 cc liquid. ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1908)
"Ouabain and strophanthin—Distinction of Botanical Source and Chemical Relation.—With
the object of clearing up the confusion existing in the conception of ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1908)
"Ouabain and strophanthin—Distinction of Botanical Source and Chemical Relation.—With
the object of clearing up the confusion existing in the conception of ..."
7. American Druggist (1888)
"With tannic acid, strophanthin yields a bulky, white precipitate, soluble in an
excess of strophanthin. ..."
8. Experimental Pharmacology by Dennis Emerson Jackson (1917)
"Give one cubic centimeter of strophanthin. Which affects the animal the most?
... Wait a while and give a similar injection of strophanthin. ..."
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