noun. A dark resinous extract obtained from several tropical American woody plants, especially Chondrodendron tomentosum or certain species of Strychnos, used as an arrow poison by some Indian peoples of South America.

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noun. Any of several purified preparations of such an extract, used formerly as a drug to relax skeletal muscles during anesthesia.

noun. The drug tubocurarine.

noun. Any of the plants that yield curare.

noun. Same as curari.

noun. A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (Strychnos toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison.

noun. A plant, Strychnos toxifera, known for the toxin it produces.

noun. A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery.

noun. a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles

"In his textbook on physiology, Professor Holmgren calls curare the "most cruel of poisons," because an animal under its influence "it changes instantly into a living corpse which hears and sees, and knows everything, but is unable to move a single muscle; and under its influence no creature can give the faintest indication of its hopeless condition.""

curari  

curariform  

alkaloid  neuromuscular blocking agent  phytotoxin  plant toxin  

curari  

aegre  aerostation  affusion  belladonna  capsicum  

urari  woorali  woorari