Quinine is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUININE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a colourless, bitter alkaloid obtained from cinchona bark, used as an antipyretic or analgesic, also QUININ, QUININA
• a bitter crystalline compound present in cinchona bark, used as a tonic and formerly as an antimalarial drug.
• bitter drug used as a tonic and formerly to treat malaria
• An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc.
• a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a medicinal alkaloid

Words related to QUININE

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Words that contain QUININE

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How to use QUININE in a sentence

• But it is not the only tree of South America whose bark may be used as a substitute for quinine.
• So great is the aversion shown by some men to the big doses of quinine as laid down by regulations, that men have often refused to take their quinine.
• And he knew that at least another day must pass before he could undertake even the smallest dose of quinine.
• The men are all beginning to complain of fever, and have eaten up a great quantity of quinine.
• Whether a practical commercial synthesis of quinine will follow is another matter, but it is within the bounds of possibility, or perhaps even of probability.
• It is better not to make the trip at all than to fail to take an ample supply of quinine pills.
• Quinine is sometimes omitted on the ground of expense, and sometimes because it proves irritating to many women.
• Some years ago, quinine became very dear, but it had no equal as a medicine for certain purposes, and so experiments were made to produce artificial quinine by chemical means.
• Of late, he had taken five grains of quinine each morning.
• A few days before the above mentioned harangue, the doctor ordered the nurse to double the usual dose of quinine.
• The manager gave me quinine, and this is a Union station.
• In the manufacture of quinine the bark is consequently dried in darkness.
• His face was three feet long, and it never moved except when he opened it to take quinine.
• A trial is now being given to quinine, and lakhs-worth sold to Indians, English quinine manufacturers being thus enriched.
• It was barely possible to feed the poor creatures, let alone give them quinine.
• The quinine of commerce will doubtless come hereafter from the slopes of the Himalayas instead of the Andes.
• Secondly, take with you quinine in two-grain pills, and begin to take them before leaving New York, as the great African traveler, Du Chaillu, recommended us.
• He took an enormous dose of quinine which braced him and he kept pushing ahead until he arrived at Natchez, twenty six hours from Vicksburg.
• They give me more quinine, but still the fever returns.
• Yet I am not sure that Cuminat was moved only by the sordid wish to advertise at our expense his preparation of quinine.
• Everything that one needs can be purchased all along the way, from a quinine capsule to a complete outfit for any occasion.
• Only quinine of established quality is allowed in the market.
• I saw him just a moment ago, and it seems to me a dose of quinine would do him good.
• A white man came along and put a spoonful of quinine in his mouth.
• I guess with quinine, whiskey, and pills, I can smile at any fever in Africa, and have done this last eight years.
• Kettle took quinine and dozed in the Madeira chair.

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