QUINIDINE

quinidine, Quinidex, Quinora

(noun) cardiac drug (trade names Quinidex and Quinora) used to treat certain heart arrhythmias

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

quinidine (countable and uncountable, plural quinidines)

(organic compound, medicine) An isomer of quinine that is used as an antiarrhythmic agent.

Source: Wiktionary


Quin"i*dine, n. (Chem.)

Definition: An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge. [Written also chinidine.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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