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Webster 1913 Edition


Quinidine

Quin′i-dine

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Noun.
(Chem.)
An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge.
[Written also
chinidine
.]

Definition 2024


quinidine

quinidine

English

Noun

quinidine (countable and uncountable, plural quinidines)

  1. (organic chemistry, medicine) An isomer of quinine that is used as an antiarrhythmic agent.

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