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quinidine

/kwin-i-deen, -din/US // ˈkwɪn ɪˌdin, -dɪn //UK // (ˈkwɪnɪˌdiːn) //

奎尼丁,奎尼迪,奎宁,奎尼汀

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Pharmacology.

    • : a colorless, crystalline alkaloid, C20H24N2O2, isomeric with quinine, obtained from the bark of certain species of cinchona trees or shrubs, used chiefly to regulate heart rhythm and to treat malaria.

Examples

  • It is nothing more than quinidine, or cinchonidine, or a mixture of both.

  • Quinidine yields with chromic acid the same decomposition products as quinine.

  • This reaction is not characteristic of quinine, for with quinidine one gets the same reaction.

  • Dr de Vrij, for instance, found sometimes more than 20% of quinidine in some samples of quinoidine of commerce.

  • From the above statement respecting the solubility of quinidine in ether, it appears that the 10 gr.