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UK
/kjˈʊɹeə/
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[ US /ˌkjuˈɹæˌɹeɪ/ ]
[ US /ˌkjuˈɹæˌɹeɪ/ ]
NOUN
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a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles
curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction
How To Use curare In A Sentence
- Curare, botulinum toxin, and organophosphorus insecticides each interfere with neural transmission.
- If they were extracting strychnine from the curare vine for poison blowgun darts, he did likewise.
- They use blowguns and darts dipped in a type of poison called curare, which instantly paralyzes an animal.
- I used no anesthetic other than the curare,which was mostly a muscle relaxant. The Strange Death of Dr. Love
- In 1940, curare was introduced to moderate the vertebrae-cracking force of the convulsions, and succinylcholine was introduced in 1952.
- The traditional way of hunting is using darts with curare (a formula whose active ingredient comes from the sap of the vine Strychnos toxifera).
- Examples include taxol from the Pacific yew, curare from a group of South American shrubs, and aspirin, from the bark of willow trees.
- He would have had first hand experience with this concept, as he was instrumental in unraveling the secret of curare, a South American arrow poison.
- They were seeking an alternative to the muscle relaxant drug, curare, derived from the South American Indian arrow poison.
- Like curare, this poison is used on arrow tips for hunting.