Definitions for veratrine

veratrine ver·a·trine

Spelling: [ver-uh-treen, -trin]
IPA: /ˈvɛr əˌtrin, -trɪn/

Veratrine is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 354 anagrams from letters in veratrine (aeeinrrtv).

Definitions for veratrine

noun

  1. a white or grayish-white, slightly water-soluble, poisonous mixture of alkaloids obtained by extraction from the seeds of the sabadilla: formerly used in medicine as a counterirritant in the treatment of rheumatism and neuralgia.

Origin of veratrine

1815-25; French Latin vērātr(um) hellebore + French -ine -ine2

Examples for veratrine

Used as a friction in rheumatism, and the other cases in which veratrine is employed.

Gallic acid occurs but seldom in nature; and always united to brucine, veratrine, or lime.

The chief constituents of colchicum are two alkaloids, colchicine and veratrine.

veratrine, warmed with syrupy phosphoric acid, develops an odour of butyric acid.

Far more useful, in neuralgias generally, is the external application of aconite or of veratrine.

The Continental authorities always give to cevadine the name of veratrine.

A dilute acetic solution of veratrine is turned to a superb red by strong sulphuric acid.

In connection with this it is interesting to note that the effect of veratrine poison on muscle is somewhat similar.

This is accelerated by a marked depressant action upon the heart, similar to that produced by veratrine and aconite.

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