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Definition of Antiar
1. n. A Virulent poison prepared in Java from the gum resin of one species of the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria).
Definition of Antiar
1. Noun. A poison obtained from the upas tree. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Antiar
1. an arrow poison [n -S]
Medical Definition of Antiar
1. A Virulent poison prepared in Java from the gum resin of one species of the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Origin: Jav. Antjar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antiar
Literary usage of Antiar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1858)
"show that the ligature or excision of the heart has not the same influence as
the antiar, inasmuch, as in the first case the musoles and nerves are found ..."
2. A Treatise on Poisons: In Relation to Medical Jurisprudence, Physiology, and by Robert Christison (1836)
"If the body of an animal be examined immediately after death from the Upas antiar,
the heart is found to have lost its irritability, and the left ventricle ..."
3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1858)
"From all these experiments, it seems to follow that the antiar is a poison which
acts principally upon the muscular system (the heart and the voluntary ..."
4. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1858)
"OBSERVATIONS ON THE POISON OF THE UPAS antiar. By Professor ALBERT KOLLIKER.
[This energetic poison has not been examined since the beginning of the present ..."
5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1871)
"Wax of antiar Upas. — Deposited from an extract of the juice prepared with hot
alcohol on cooling, and purified by boiling with water. See xvi, 217. ..."
6. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1876)
"The facts all support the view of previous observers, that antiar is essentially
a muscular poison, and produces its effects chiefly at least by interfering ..."
7. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1825)
"... and Upas antiar, [Ann, de Cbim, et de Pbys. Mai 1824, xxv;.. 44. ... The fame
gentlemen have analyzed the Upas antiar. ..."
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