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quinidine
[ kwin-i-deen, -din ]
noun
, Pharmacology.
- a colorless, crystalline alkaloid, C 2 0 H 2 4 N 2 O 2 , 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.
quinidine
/ ˈkwɪnɪˌdiːn /
noun
- a crystalline alkaloid drug that is an optically active diastereoisomer of quinine: used to treat heart arrhythmias. Formula: C 20 H 24 N 2 O 2
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It is nothing more than quinidine, or cinchonidine, or a mixture of both.
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Quinidine yields with chromic acid the same decomposition products as quinine.
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This reaction is not characteristic of quinine, for with quinidine one gets the same reaction.
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Dr de Vrij, for instance, found sometimes more than 20% of quinidine in some samples of quinoidine of commerce.
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From the above statement respecting the solubility of quinidine in ether, it appears that the 10 gr.
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