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Webster 1913 Edition
Quinidine
Quin′i-dine
,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)
- (organic chemistry, medicine) An isomer of quinine that is used as an antiarrhythmic agent.