Urare vs. Curare
Difference Between Urare and Curare
Urarenoun
alternative form of curare
Curarenoun
A dark resinous extract obtained from several tropical American woody plants, especially Chondrodendron tomentosum or certain species of Strychnos, used as an arrow poison by some Indian peoples of South America.
Curarenoun
Any of several purified preparations of such an extract, used formerly as a drug to relax skeletal muscles during anesthesia.
Curarenoun
The drug tubocurarine.
Curarenoun
Any of the plants that yield curare.
Curarenoun
a plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content
Curarenoun
other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae
Curarenoun
a substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery
Curarenoun
a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles; used by South American indians as an arrow poison;
curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction
