cinchonidine

/sing-kon-i-deen, -din, sin-/US // sɪŋˈkɒn ɪˌdin, -dɪn, sɪn- //UK // (sɪŋˈkɒnɪˌdiːn) //

辛可尼丁,辛科尼丁,辛可尼定,辛可宁

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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Pharmacology.
- : a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble, levorotatory alkaloid, C19H22N2O, stereoisomeric with cinchonine and similarly derived, used chiefly as a quinine substitute.

Red bark contains not only quinine and cinchonine, but also cinchonidine.
If it is chemically pure, cinchonidine belongs to the non-fluorescent alkaloids.
It is nothing more than quinidine, or cinchonidine, or a mixture of both.
After subsidence of the acute symptoms cinchonidine salicylate may be continued for a few days in appropriate doses.
Cinchonidine, when heated with potassium hydrate, yields quinoline also, and with nitric acid the same products as cinchonine.