muscarine

/muhs-ker-in, -kuh-reen/US // ˈmʌs kər ɪn, -kəˌrin //UK // (ˈmʌskərɪn, -ˌriːn) //

麝香,蕈碱,麝香碱,麝香酸

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Chemistry.
- : a poisonous compound, C8H19NO3, found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.

The poisons of rafflesia, muscarine, and orsere are introduced in his fictions; somewhere he devotes an essay to toxicology.
An example of this kind of myosis is the action of muscarine.
Muscarine is isomeric with betain and oxycholin, from which it is separated by its fluorescence and poisonous properties.
Muscarine is a stronger base than ammonia, and precipitates copper and iron oxides from solutions of their salts.
The muscarine heart, when it has ceased to beat, may be successfully stimulated by galvanism.