Associations to the word «Curare»
Wiktionary
CURARE, noun. A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content.
CURARE, noun. Other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae
CURARE, noun. A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery.
Dictionary definition
CURARE, noun. A toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles; "curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction".
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