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CURARE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does curare mean?
• CURARE (noun)
The noun CURARE has 1 sense:
1. a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles
Familiarity information: CURARE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
curare; tubocurarine
Context example:
curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction
Hypernyms ("curare" is a kind of...):
alkaloid (natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants)
neuromuscular blocking agent (a substance that interferes with the neural transmission between motor neurons and skeletal muscles)
phytotoxin; plant toxin (any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin)
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