1) curare. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...curare, (kyoorar´e) (KEY) , any of a variety of substances originally used as arrow poisons by Native South Americans in hunting and in warfare. The main active substance...
2) curare. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...tomentosum, used in medicine and surgery to relax skeletal muscles. 3. A plant yielding curare. Portuguese or Spanish curare, both of Cariban and Tupian origin....
3) tubocurarine. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1. An alkaloid that is the active component of curare. 2. The chloride of this alkaloid, C38H44Cl2N2O6, used as a muscle relaxant. Latin tubus, tube (from the practice...
4) curarize. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...Inflected forms: cuˇraˇrized, cuˇraˇrizˇing, cuˇraˇrizˇes1. To poison with curare. 2. To treat with curare so as to relax the skeletal muscles. cuˇrariˇzation (-ri-zshn)...
5) pococurante. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...One who does not care. Italian : poco, little; see poco + curante, present participle of curare, to care for (from Latin crre, from cra, care).pocoˇcuˇrantism -NOUN...
6) Telamon. i by Quintus Ennius. Heathcote William Garrod, comp. 1912. The
Oxford Book of Latin Verse
...EGO deum genus esse semper dixi et dicam caelitum, sed eos non curare opinor quid agat humanum genus: nam si curent, bene bonis sit, male malis, quod nunc abest sed...
7) blowgun. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...an arrow is blown by a person's breath. The arrow was usually tipped with a poison, such as curare, which would stun or kill the struck prey. Blowguns were widely...
8) alkaloid. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...render them valuable as medicines. For example, curarine, found in the deadly extract curare, is a powerful muscle relaxant; atropine is used to dilate the pupils...
9) Bovet, Daniele. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...in Physiology or Medicine for his work in developing antihistamines, sulfa drugs, and curare derivatives and other muscle relaxants for use in surgery. He also became...
10) acetylcholine. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...which pass back to the first cell to be recycled into acetylcholine again. The poison curare acts by blocking the transmission of acetylcholine. Some nerve gases...
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