Crossword-Solution: ESERINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Eserine | n. | An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “ESERINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Alkaloid of a bean | 1 answer |
| Alkaloid used as a myotic. | 1 answer |
| An alkaloid. | 1 answer |
| Drug used in eyedrops. | 1 answer |
| physostigmine | 1 answer |
| Alkaloid used in medicine | 2 answers |
| alkaloid | 18 answers |
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Sentences with ESERINE (5)
According to my experience no higher visual acuity can be attained by use of the amblyopic eye, than that which is best detected by the aid of eserine in the first examination, if it is only carried out thoroughly enough.
Contraction of the pupil is observed in inflammation of the retina or of the brain, narcotism from opium (until near death) or eserine, or apoplectic effusion near the pons varolii.
Calabarine appears to exert a physiological action antagonistic to that of eserine, and since the commercial preparations of the drug consist, according to the above chemists, of mixtures of the two alkaloids in varying proportions, the discordant effects frequently observed to follow the administration of any of the various preparations of the bean, admit of ready explanation.
Wherever eserine predominated it appeared to suppress the effects of calabarine; on the other hand, if this latter preponderated, the paralysing effect on the spinal cord otherwise exercised by eserine would fail to be produced.
Merk, in Darmstadt, has heretofore prepared and sold a substance which was supposed to be the only active principle of calabar, and which he called calabarine, but which was really eserine or physostigmine.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1946–1973).