How To Use Curare In A Sentence
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Curare, botulinum toxin, and organophosphorus insecticides each interfere with neural transmission.
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If they were extracting strychnine from the curare vine for poison blowgun darts, he did likewise.
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They use blowguns and darts dipped in a type of poison called curare, which instantly paralyzes an animal.
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I used no anesthetic other than the curare,which was mostly a muscle relaxant.
The Strange Death of Dr. Love
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In 1940, curare was introduced to moderate the vertebrae-cracking force of the convulsions, and succinylcholine was introduced in 1952.
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The traditional way of hunting is using darts with curare (a formula whose active ingredient comes from the sap of the vine Strychnos toxifera).
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Examples include taxol from the Pacific yew, curare from a group of South American shrubs, and aspirin, from the bark of willow trees.
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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.
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They were seeking an alternative to the muscle relaxant drug, curare, derived from the South American Indian arrow poison.
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Like curare, this poison is used on arrow tips for hunting.
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The effect of Sin on the transmission of the impulses through isolated rabbit superior cervical sympathetic ganglia in comparison with that of curare by the sucrose - gap method was studied.
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The darts, sharpened at one end, are dipped in the poisonous sap of the curare tree to produce an anaesthetic effect upon the victim.
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The darts, sharpened at one end, are dipped in the poisonous sap of the curare tree to produce an anaesthetic effect upon the victim.
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The aminosteroids include pancuronium and vecuronium and the bisquaternary nitrogen compounds include the progenitor compound curare and one of its derivatives, atracurium.
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Amongst the most curious of the discoveries made by Humboldt, we must mention that of the "curare," the virulent poison which he saw manufactured by the Catarapeni and Maquiritare Indians, and a specimen of which he sent to the Institute with the "dapiche," a variety of
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
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The next step of lethal injection is a huge hit of curare derivative to lock up your lungs.
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His hope is that a dose of poisonous curare followed quickly by the antidote will reverse the ongoing paralysis of his limbs.
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Since inhalational agents were associated with unpleasant side-effects, lighter anaesthesia together with curare offered advantages.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their bark and roots contain curare, a lethal poison, which in small doses is now used as a muscle relaxant for open-heart surgery.
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The toxin in question is curare, originally known as woorari by South American aboriginals, who used it on their poison arrows.
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In 1940, curare was introduced to moderate the vertebrae-cracking force of the convulsions, and succinylcholine was introduced in 1952.
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In his textbook on physiology, Professor Holmgren calls curare the "most cruel of poisons," because an animal under its influence "it changes instantly into a living corpse which hears and sees, and knows everything, but is unable to move a single muscle; and under its influence no creature can give the faintest indication of its hopeless condition.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
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I thought of curare, or woorali, the South American arrow poison with which Kennedy once had dealt.
The Film Mystery
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They use blowguns and darts dipped in a type of poison called curare, which instantly paralyzes an animal.
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The poisonous properties of the plant reside in two alkaloids isolated by Lukowsky from the leaves: _oleandrine_, extremely toxic and _pseudo-curarine_, as its name indicates, resembling curare in its action.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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A drop of curare, mingled with the blood, dripped off the tip of it.
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The prisoner who'd given her the curare had meant well.
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Muscle activation by neurons can be blocked by the drug curare, which prevents neuromuscular transmission, and this blocking results in a large increase in the number of motor neurons that survive.
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It contained a secret compartment with a needle and enough curare to kill a captured pilot instantly.
A Spy's Ill-Fated Flight From Pakistan
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Temi, as a kind of barbasco, to intoxicate fish; and finally, the liana, known in those countries by the name of vejuco de mavacure, which yields the famous curare poison.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
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Did you know that there's a species of frog on this island that secretes a powerful toxin known as curare?
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The introduction in 1946 of the relaxant drugs - derived from curare, the South American arrow poison - dramatically changed the techniques of anaesthesia.
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curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction
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Hammett and his followers, Chandler wrote, "gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not with hand-wrought duelling pistols, curare, and tropical fish.
Review of "Think of a Number," a thriller by John Verdon
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a single engagement seventy of Hojeda's companions fell under the arrows of the savages, fearful weapons steeped in "curare," so fatal
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World
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An even better idea might be a judicious injection of curare, if it works as I've been told it does.
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[3923] Ad cinerem et manes credis curare sepultos?
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Professor Starling admitted in his evidence that if the anaesthetic passed off, the curarized animal would be unable to move or to show any sign of suffering; there would be no possibility of a dog whining or moaning; "it could not, under curare," he frankly admits.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
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No curare lipstick touched the president, even if Joe Biden seemed the closest to the blond ambition danger.
When's A Crash Like A Train Wreck? When We Can't Look Away...
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Just find yourself a Curare plant and coat the tips of your blowgun darts with its juice.
Tucker Hassler: A Journey to the Amazon Basin of Peru
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curare de raiz;" and with others the poison is produced by a mixture of several species of juices from the plant _Ambihuasca_, tobacco, red pepper, a bark called "barbasco," from a tree of the genus _Jacquinia_, and a plant of the name "sarnango.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
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Such is the quickness with which the "curare" does its work!
Popular Adventure Tales
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Turning to our Nineteenth Century essayists, we find chloroform is everywhere, and curare nowhere.
