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Definition of Calabar bean

Calabar bean
Calabar Cal"a*bar, n. A district on the west coast of Africa. Calabar bean, The of a climbing legumious plant (Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.

Meaning of Calabar bean from wikipedia

- Physostigma venenosum, the Calabar bean or ordeal bean, is a leguminous plant, Endemic to tropical Africa, with a seed poisonous to humans. It derives...
- Calabar bean) is a highly toxic parasympathomimetic alkaloid, specifically, a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor. It occurs naturally in the Calabar...
- primate Calabar bean Calabar python Calabar River, Nigeria Domingos Fernandes Calabar (c. 1600–1635) was a Brazilian soldier and smuggler Calabar Kingdom...
- aminals Physostigmine,a highly toxic cholinesterase inhibitor found in the Calabar bean. Hodgkinsine, an alkaloid with antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal...
- researched the effects on the eye made by physostigmine, an extract from the Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum), which is found in tropical Africa. Robert Christison...
- Uburutu people of present-day Nigeria, would administer the poisonous Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum, known as esere in Efik), which contains physostigmine...
- halved fruits containing the toxic seeds Flower Unripe fruit Nerium Calabar bean Digitalis POWO: Cerbera manghas L. Babula P, Masarik M, Adam V, Provaznik...
- physostigmine from the calabar bean. Julian also extracted stigmasterol, which took its name from Physostigma venenosum, the west African calabar bean that he hoped...
- shrub Iboga, which contain ibogaine, as a stimulant. An infusion of Calabar bean seeds was given to people accused of crime in Nigeria: its rejection...
- evening. She was poisoned with physostigmine sulphate, an extract from the Calabar bean that her husband researches. Poirot's testimony at the inquest – that...