Definition of Curare. Meaning of Curare. Synonyms of Curare

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Definition of Curare

Curare
Curare Cu*ra"re Curari Cu*ra"ri(k?-r?"r?), n. [Native name. Cf. Wourall.] A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (S. toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison. [Written also urari, woorali, woorari, etc.]

Meaning of Curare from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- hypnotist Spellbinder; the sound weaponizer Shriek; the deadly ********in Curaré; the insane terrorist Mad Stan; the cybernetically enhanced African big-game...
- 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...
- the site of postsynaptic acetylcholine receptors. Tubocurarine, found in curare of the South American plant Pareira, Chondrodendron tomentosum, is the prototypical...
- toxic alkaloids and is one of the sources of the arrow poison curarespecifically 'tube curare', the name of which is derived from the name of the medicinally...
- 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...
- ********in (voiced by Victor Rivers) is the head of the Society of ********ins. Curaré (voiced by Melissa Disney) is a silent member of the Society of ********ins...
- 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...