Physostigmine is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PHYSOSTIGMINE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an alkaloid found in the Calabar bean used esp. in eye drops to reduce pressure inside the eyeball, aka eserine, also PHYSOSTIGMIN
• a compound which is the active ingredient of the Calabar bean and is used medicinally in eye drops on account of its anticholinesterase activity.
• a poison extracted from the Calabar bean
• An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; -- formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.
• used in treatment of Alzheimer\'s disease and glaucoma
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a crystalline tasteless alkaloid C15H21N3O2 from the Calabar bean that is used in medicine especially in the form of its salicylate for its anticholinesterase activity

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Words that contain PHYSOSTIGMINE

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How to use PHYSOSTIGMINE in a sentence

• Each of these contains one-thousandth part of a grain of physostigmine sulphate, a quantity which is perfectly efficient.
• The respiration is at first accelerated by a dose of physostigmine, but is afterwards slowed and ultimately arrested.
• Consciousness is entirely unaffected by physostigmine, there being apparently no action on any part of the brain above the medulla oblongata.
• There is a marked antagonism in nearly all important particulars between the actions of physostigmine and of atropine.
• The clinical uses of physostigmine are based upon the facts of its pharmacology, as above detailed.

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