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Strychnine   /strˈɪknˌaɪn/   Listen
Strychnine

noun
1.
An alkaloid plant toxin extracted chiefly from nux vomica; formerly used as a stimulant.





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"Strychnine" Quotes from Famous Books



... is written will come to pass. First comes a doctor with a butchering apparatus who cups and bleeds me unmercifully, says I'll walk ten days after, and exit. Enter another. Croton oil and strychnine pills, that'll set me up in two weeks. And exit. Enter a third. Sounds my bones and pinches them from my head to my heels. Tells of the probability of a splinter of bone knocked off my left hip, the possibility of paralysis in the leg, ...
— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson


Words linked to "Strychnine" :   phytotoxin, nux vomica, plant toxin, alkaloid


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