Crossword-Solution: PHYSOSTIGMINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Physostigmine | n. | 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. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PHYSOSTIGMINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CARBAMATE alkaloid | 1 answer |
| a poison extracted from the Calabar bean | 1 answer |
| eserine | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
IMTOEON
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A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with PHYSOSTIGMINE (5)
Each of these contains one-thousandth part of a grain of physostigmine sulphate, a quantity which is perfectly efficient.
Physostigmine, indeed, stimulates nearly all the non-striped muscles in the body, and this action upon the muscular coats of the arteries, and especially of the arterioles, causes a great rise in blood-pressure shortly after its absorption, which is very rapid.
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.
The alkaloid calabarine is, on the other hand, a stimulant of the motor and reflex functions of the cord, so that only the pure alkaloid physostigmine and not any preparation of Calabar bean itself should be used when it is desired to obtain this action.