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Curare (/kʊˈrɑːri/ or /kjʊˈrɑːri/; kuu-RAH-ree or kyuu-RAH-ree) is a
common name for
various alkaloid arrow poisons originating from
plant extracts. Used...
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hypnotist Spellbinder; the
sound weaponizer Shriek; the
deadly ********in
Curaré; the
insane terrorist Mad Stan; the
cybernetically enhanced African big-game...
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known to the
European world since the
Spanish conquest of
South America.
Curare had been used as a
source of
arrow poison by
South American natives to hunt...
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blowgun darts.
Curare has also been used
medicinally by
South Americans to
treat madness, dropsy, edema, fever,
kidney stones, and bruises.
Curare acts as a...
- the site of
postsynaptic acetylcholine receptors. Tubocurarine,
found in
curare of the
South American plant Pareira,
Chondrodendron tomentosum, is the prototypical...
- make-up, however, and his hair has
turned completely white. In The Crow:
Curare, Carrie's pale skin
color is not
accomplished by make-up,
there is no horizontal...
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electroconvulsive therapy and
experimental drugs,
including poisons such as
curare and
hallucinogens such as
lysergic acid diethylamide, to
patients and prisoners...
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examples are the
poisons secreted from the skin of the
poison dart frog, and
curare (or 'ampi'), a
general term for a
range of plant-derived
arrow poisons used...
- also had
extensive networks of trade,
dealing in
items such as blow pipes,
curare, c****ava graters, and
other essentials.
These trade networks were important...
- seeds, clay pellets, and darts. Some
cultures dip the tip of the
darts in
curare or
other arrow poisons in
order to
paralyze the target.
Blowguns were very...
