Definition of Curarize

1. v. t. To poison with curare.

Definition of Curarize

1. Verb. (transitive) To poison with curare. ¹

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Definition of Curarize

1. to poison with curare [v -RIZED, -RIZING, -RIZES]

Medical Definition of Curarize

1. To bring under the influence of curare: to induce curarisation is to induce relaxation of voluntary muscles by curare. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Curarize

curara
curaras
curare
curares
curari
curariform
curarimimetic
curarine
curarines
curaris
curarise
curarised
curarises
curarization
curarizations
curarize (current term)
curarized
curarizes
curarizing
curat
curate
curate's egg
curate cycloid
curated
curateless
curates
curates' eggs
curateship

Literary usage of Curarize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Experimental Physiology for Students of Medicine by Winfield Scott Hall (1904)
"TO curarize A FROG. On experiments of the irritability of muscle tissue it is necessary to in some way suspend the activity of the irritable nerve fibres ..."

2. Author's & Printer's Dictionary: A Guide for Authors by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"... use Coupar- —. cuppa, a chalice bowl. cur., currency, current. curacao. liqueur, not -oa. curare*, a drug, not -a, -i. curarize*, to administer curare, ..."

3. Animal Micrology: Practical Exercises in Zoölogical Micro-technique by Michael Frederic Guyer (1917)
"curarize Ambystoma or other young amphibian larvae by adding (according to size of larva) 5 to 10 drops of a 0.5 per cent solution of curare in equal parts ..."

4. Textbook of human physiology by Leonard Landois, William Stirling (1889)
"Take a dog, curarize it, expose both vagi and establish artificial respiration ; then estimate the blood pressure in the carotid. After section of the vagi, ..."

5. A Manual of physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1895)
"Pith a frog (brain only), and curarize it as in 7, p. 543 ; then pith the spinal cord and make a muscle-nerve preparation. Arrange it on the myograph plate. ..."

6. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1904)
"... marked changes in the intraocular tension that it was necessary to fully curarize the animal to exclude errors from this source. Treatment of Glaucoma. ..."

7. A Manual of histology by Thomas Edward Satterthwaite (1882)
"Take a medium-sized frog and curarize him by injecting beneath the skin, with an ordinary hypodermic syr- **« inge, two drops of a weak solution of curara ..."

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