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Definition of Pilocarpine
1. Noun. Cholinergic alkaloid used in eyedrops to treat glaucoma.
Definition of Pilocarpine
1. n. An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.
Definition of Pilocarpine
1. Noun. (biochemistry) A muscarinic alkaloid obtained from the leaves of tropical American shrubs from the genus Pilocarpus. ¹
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Definition of Pilocarpine
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Medical Definition of Pilocarpine
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Literary usage of Pilocarpine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Venom of Heloderma by Leo Loeb (1913)
"INFLUENCE OF pilocarpine ON THE SECRETION OF VENOM. In order to obtain greater
quantities of venom we injected subcutaneously 0.1 grain of pilocarpine into ..."
2. Laboratory Manual for the Detection of Poisons and Powerful Drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth, William Homer Warren (1915)
"Solutions of pilocarpine and its salts Hj are dextro-rotatory. ... Caustic alkalies,
added to concentrated solutions jj of pilocarpine salts, ..."
3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1896)
"Solutions of pilocarpine are neutral to litmus, but exhibit a distinctly alkaline
reaction to ... The salts of pilocarpine are now much used in medicine. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"The Effect of pilocarpine on the Output of Lymphocytes through the Thoracic
Duct.— Rous (Jour Exp. Med., 1908, x, 329) has been able to confirm some ..."
5. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1908)
"The lymphocytosis induced in the blood by pilocarpine is a phenomenon which has
been turned to the use of many theories but has had, of itself, little study ..."
6. Poisons: Their Effects and Detection by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1906)
"The solutions are dextrorotatory, aD = + 100-5°. If the free base is distilled
in vacuo, a large portion of the pilocarpine is converted into ..."
7. A Textbook of the pharmacology and therapeutics, or the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1901)
"pilocarpine and muscarine, two alkaloids of very different chemical constitution,
... pilocarpine and muscarine stimulate the terminations of certain nerves ..."
8. Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry by Alfred Walter Stewart (1920)
"The Constitution of pilocarpine. pilocarpine occurs in jaborandi leaves in conjunction
... The general structure of pilocarpine has been established in the ..."
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