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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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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...
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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...
- the site of
postsynaptic acetylcholine receptors. Tubocurarine,
found in
curare of the
South American plant Pareira,
Chondrodendron tomentosum, is the prototypical...
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these alkaloids are the well-known and
virulent poisons strychnine and
curare. The name
strychnos was
applied by
Pliny the
Elder in his
Natural History...
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toxic alkaloids and is one of the
sources of the
arrow poison curare –
specifically 'tube
curare', the name of
which is
derived from the name of the medicinally...
- led her to
become the
latter was
referenced in the
episode "A
Touch of
Curaré". It is also
implied that she had an
affair with
Bruce that
ended badly...
- 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...
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effect with
which injected curare poison is
usually ****ociated is
muscle paralysis and
resultant death.
Curare notably functions to
inhibit nicotinic...
