quinidine
[kwin-i-deen, -din]
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noun Pharmacology.
a colorless, crystalline alkaloid, C20H24N2O2, isomeric with quinine, obtained from the bark of certain species of cinchona trees or shrubs, used chiefly to regulate heart rhythm and to treat malaria.
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Quinidine yields with chromic acid the same decomposition products as quinine.
This reaction is not characteristic of quinine, for with quinidine one gets the same reaction.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
Dr de Vrij, for instance, found sometimes more than 20% of quinidine in some samples of quinoidine of commerce.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
From the above statement respecting the solubility of quinidine in ether, it appears that the 10 gr.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
If this be quinidine, it will be dissolved on the addition of proportionately more ether, while cinchonine will remain unaffected.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
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