1) Alkaloid 2) Arrow poison 3) Blowgun dart poison 4) Cut short by a rare poison 5) Inee 6) Murder mystery poison 7) Muscle relaxant 8) Muscle relaxant 9) Neuromuscular blocking agent 10) Paralytic poison 11) Paralyzing poison 12) Phytotoxin 13) Plant toxin 14) Poison arrow poison 15) Poison gas inhaled by priest
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1) Inee 2) Tubocurarine
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Curare iː is a common name for various plant extract alkaloid arrow poisons originating from Central and South America. These poisons function by competitively and reversibly inhibiting the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR), which is a subtype of acetylcholine receptor found at the neuromuscular junction. This causes weakness of the skelet...
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• (n.) Alt. of Curari
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skeletal-muscle–relaxant drug belonging to the alkaloid family of organic compounds. Of botanical origin, it is used in modern medicine primarily as ... [11 related articles]
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<drug> Curare alkaloids are the active ingredients of arrow poisons used by South American Indians. ... Alkaloids that have muscle relaxant properties because they block motor end plate transmission, acting as competitive antagonists for acetylcholine. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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(koo-rah´re) any of a wide variety of highly toxic extracts from various botanical sources, including various species of Strychnos, a genus of tropical trees; used originally as arrow poisons in South America. A form extracted from the shrub Chondodendron tomentosum has been used as a skeletal muscle relaxant.
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Curare alkaloids are the active ingredients of arrow poisons used by S. American Indians; they have muscle-relaxant properties because they block motor endplate transmission, acting as competitive antagonists for acetylcholine.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: kū-rah′rē Definitions: 1. An extract of various plants, especially Strychnos toxifera, S. castelnaei, S. crevauxii, and Chondodendron tomentosum, which produces nondepolarizing paralysis of skeletal muscle after intravenous injection by blocking transmission at the myoneuronal junction; indigenous South Ame...
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Curare: A muscle relaxant used in anesthesia (and, in the past, in arrow poisons by South American Indians). Curare competes with acetylcholine, a chemical that carries information between nerve and muscle cells, and blocks transmission of the information.
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(koo-rua-re) A chemical derived from plant sources that causes flaccid paralysis by blocking ACh receptor proteins in muscle cell membranes.
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Curare is an extremely bitter-tasting poison derived from the bark of a South American vine tree.
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Black, resinous poison extracted from the bark and juices of various South American trees and plants. Originally used on arrowheads by Amazonian hunters to paralyse prey, it blocks nerve stimulation of the muscles. Alkaloid derivatives (called curarines) are used in medicine as muscle relaxants during surgery
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a blackish, resinlike substance derived from tropical plants of the genus Strychnos, esp. S. toxifera, and from the root of pareira, used by certain South American Indians for poisoning arrows and employed in physiological experiments, medicine, etc., for arresting the action of motor nerves. · a plant yielding this substance.
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