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Apomorphine

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

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Morphia 76% connected

Morphine.

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Morphine 76% connected

A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and m…

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(pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution

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a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison

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Anticoagulant medication noun · 85% connection

medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood

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a medicine used to relieve pain

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Bear's-foot noun · 78% connection

A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emeti…

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Belladonna noun · 78% connection

An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its f…

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Brucine noun · 78% connection

A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nu…

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Bryonin noun · 78% connection

A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, a…

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Cocaine noun · 78% connection

A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for…

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Colchicine noun · 78% connection

A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous…

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Conhydrine noun · 78% connection

A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily…

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Conine noun · 78% connection

A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of…

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Cotarnine noun · 78% connection

A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and…

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Cryptopine noun · 78% connection

A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.

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Curare noun · 78% connection

a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles; "curare acts by bloc…

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Curarine noun · 78% connection

A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.

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