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Definition of Coniine
1. n. See Conine.
Definition of Coniine
1. Noun. A poisonous alkaloid found in poison hemlock and the yellow pitcher plant; it is a neurotoxin which disrupts the peripheral nervous system. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coniine
1. a poisonous alkaloid [n -S]
Medical Definition of Coniine
1. A strong liquid-alkaloid poison with the formula C8H17N that is prepared from the poison hemlock plant. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coniine
Literary usage of Coniine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Druggist (1888)
"Previous to that time, a synthetical coniine had already been prepared, ...
One of the chief differences was this, that the artificial coniine was optically ..."
2. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1912)
"The mother- liquor is redistilled and yields benzoyl coniine (bp 203 to 204° at
... The coniine recovered from the benzoyl derivative proved to be a mixture ..."
3. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1912)
"The mother- liquor is redistilled and yields benzoyl coniine (bp 203 to 204° at
... The coniine recovered from the benzoyl derivative proved to be a mixture ..."
4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"coniine is most readily separated from the crashed, unripe hemlock seeds by
digesting them with water made alkaline with sodium carbonate, to decompose the ..."
5. Laboratory Manual for the Detection of Poisons and Powerful Drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth (1921)
"Heated with acetic anhydride, it forms acetyl-coniine: ... COOH; Shaken with
benzoyl chloride and sodium hydroxide solution, it forms benzoyl- coniine: ia + ..."
6. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"coniine. coniine is one of the simpler derivatives of Piperidine, which is obtained
from Pyridine by reduction. A series of alkaloids may be formed from ..."
7. Poisons: Their Effects and Detection by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1906)
"The fresh plant is said to contain from about '04 to '09 per cent., and the fruit
about 0'7 per cent, of coniine. The officinal preparations are—the leaves, ..."
8. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1894)
"By crystallization large colorless crystals of coniine ... Hydrate of coniine is
preferable to coniine as a starting point for the manufacture of the salts ..."