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Definition of Physostigmine
1. Noun. Used in treatment of Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma.
Definition of Physostigmine
1. n. An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; -- formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.
Definition of Physostigmine
1. Noun. (chemistry) A parasympathomimetic, a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor alkaloid of the Calabar bean, used to treat certain medical conditions. ¹
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Definition of Physostigmine
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Literary usage of Physostigmine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"Xm. physostigmine. physostigmine or Eserine is the chief alkaloid of the ...
Either physostigmine itself, or a nearly allied alkaloid, occurs also in the ..."
2. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery, and Their Allied Sciences, for by New Sydenham Society (1873)
"The influence that is exerted by atropine upon the lethal action of extract of
physostigmine and sulphate of physostigmine was examined in rabbits, ..."
3. Laboratory manual for the detection of poisons and powerful drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth (1921)
"physostigmine solutions are strongly alkaline, almost tasteless and laevo-rotatory.
... Owing to this tendency of physostigmine to undergo decomposition, ..."
4. Laboratory manual for the detection of poisons and powerful drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth (1921)
"physostigmine solutions are strongly alkaline, almost tasteless and laevo-rotatory.
... Owing to this tendency of physostigmine to undergo decomposition, ..."
5. Poisons: their effects and detection by Alexander Wynter Blyth (1895)
"physostigmine contracts the iris to a point; the action is quite local, ...
A difference between physostigmine and nicotine exists in the constant ..."
6. A Text-book of Alkaloidal Therapeutics by William Francis Waugh, Wallace C. Abbott, Ephraim Menahhem Epstein (1904)
"The average dose of pepsin for an adult is a grain at the end of each meal, with
a due addition of hydrochloric acid. physostigmine ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"physostigmine Salicylate in the Prevention of Postoperative Intestinal Atony.
... patients received the physostigmine salicylate with the initial dose of ..."
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