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Definition of Strychnine
1. Noun. An alkaloid plant toxin extracted chiefly from nux vomica; formerly used as a stimulant.
Definition of Strychnine
1. n. A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceæ, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.
Definition of Strychnine
1. Noun. (chemistry) A very toxic, colourless crystalline alkaloid, derived from nux vomica, used as a pesticide ¹
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Definition of Strychnine
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Literary usage of Strychnine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"On the use of strychnine. By M. BALLY, Physician to the Hospital La Charité.—In
addition to the violent spasmodic contractions produced by strychnine, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"strychnine in poisonous doses almost invariably produces tetanic convulsions.
The smallest dose yet known to prove fatal, was in the case of Dr. Warner, ..."
3. American Druggist (1891)
"This amount of strychnine corresponds to 15.3 Cc of -f'sv normal ... 9.
ababab strychnine 42.7 42.1 53.4 53 45.6 46.2 Brucine 67.8 5T.9 46.6 48 54.4 53.8. ..."
4. Laboratory Manual for the Detection of Poisons and Powerful Drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth, William Homer Warren (1915)
"The free base strychnine forms colorless, shining prisms belonging to ...
strychnine diluted with water i : 600000 can be recognized by its bitter taste. ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1857)
"The charcoal now retaining the strychnine is allowed to dry spontaneously,
thereafter placed in a flask, drenched with alcohol, and the whole kept for two ..."
6. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1857)
"SINCE writing the notes of the Lecture on strychnine which appeared in the August
number of the Pharmaceutical Journal, I have been engaged in prosecuting ..."
7. A Textbook of Pharmacology and Therapeutics: Or, The Action of Drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1906)
"strychnine is the chief alkaloid occurring in several species of Strychnos, ...
A large number of alkaloids have been found to resemble strychnine in their ..."
8. Laboratory Manual for the Detection of Poisons and Powerful Drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth, William Homer Warren (1915)
"strychnine does not increase reflex irritability for all kinds ... When the dose
of strychnine is sufficiently large, each kind of stimulus mentioned will ..."
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