Curare Synonyms

kyo͝orärē, ko͝orärē
A toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. tubocurarine

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Curare Sentence Examples

  • It is, in the words of the old formula, Curare, cito, tuto, et jucunde, to cure quickly, safely, and pleasantly.

  • There are therefore in most prescriptions (i) a basis or chief ingredient intended to cure (curare), (2) an adjuvant to assist its action and make it cure quickly (cito), (3) a corrective to prevent or lessen any undesirable effect (tuto), and (4) a vehicle or excipient to make it suitable for administration and pleasant to the patient (jucunde).

  • The researches of his pupil, Claude Bernard, on curare, were equally exact and logical, and have served as the model for many subsequent investigations.

  • Thus curare may stop strychnine convulsions by paralysing the terminations of motor nerves, and chloroform may exercise the same effect by abolishing the irritability of the spinal cord.

  • In the case of curare these are masked almost at once by paralysis of the terminations of the motor nerves.

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