Look up: Quinidine

1. quinidine
   [n] - cardiac drug (trade names Quinidex and Quinora) used to treat certain heart arrhythmias
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2. Quinidine
   Quin'i·dine noun (Chemistry) An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge. [ Written also chinidine .]
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3. quinidine
   <chemistry> An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge. ... Alternative forms: chinidine. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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4. quinidine
   Quinidex noun cardiac drug (trade names Quinidex and Quinora) used to treat certain heart arrhythmias
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5. quinidine
   (kwin´ĭ-dēn) the dextrorotatory isomer of quinine, administered orally as the gluconate, polygalacturonate, or sulfate salts, or intravenously as the gluconate salt in treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. It is also administered intravenously as the gluconate salt in the treatment of life-threatening malaria caus...
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6. Quinidine
   • (n.) An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge.
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7. quinidine
   drug used in the treatment of abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia) and malaria. Obtained from the bark of the Cinchona tree, quinidine shares many of ... [3 related articles]
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8. Quinidine
   An alkaloid from cinchona bark, used in the management of irregular heartbeats. Pregnant women should avoid the medicaiton as intrauterine exposure may cause blood platelet reduction in the newborn.
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9. quinidine
   quinidine (kwin'idēn") , heart muscle relaxant used to maintain regular heart rhythm patterns. It is an alkaloid chemically similar to quinine and, like quinine, occurs naturally in some species of cinchona trees. Quinidine slows the rate of blood flow in heart chambers and lowers the ...
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10. quinidine
    Type: Term Pronunciation: kwin′i-dēn, -din Definitions: 1. One of the alkaloids of cinchona, a stereoisomer of quinine (the C-9 epimer); used as an antimalarial; also used in the treatment of atrial fibrillation and flutter, and paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia. Synonyms: conquinine
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11. Quinidine
    `Quinidine` is a pharmaceutical agent that acts as a class I antiarrhythmic agent (Ia) in the heart. It is a stereoisomer of quinine, originally derived from the bark of the cinchona tree. Mechanism: Like all other class I antiarrhythmic agents, quinidine primarily works by blocking the fast inward ...
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