Crossword-Solution: VERATRINE
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| Veratrine | n. | A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina. |
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| CEBADILLA poison | 1 answer |
| white poisonous mixture obtained from the seeds of sabadilla | 1 answer |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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For instance, there is the veratrine that may be derived from the sabadilla seeds which grow in the West Indies and Mexico.
The point is, veratrine from what source? The sabadilla is dextro-rotary; the death camas is levo-rotary.
Veratrine, Colchicine, Theine.—Solutions were made of these three alkaloids by adding one part to 437 of water.
Ptomaines are, for the most part, alkaloids generated during the process of putrefaction, and they closely resemble many of the vegetable alkaloids--veratrine, morphine, and codeine, for example--not only in chemical characters, but in physiological properties.
Veratric acid (Chem.), an acid occurring, together with veratrine, in the root of white hellebore (Veratrum album), and in sabadilla seed; -- extracted as a white crystalline substance which is related to protocatechuic acid.