SALVINORIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salvinorin mean? 

• SALVINORIN (noun)
  The noun SALVINORIN has 1 sense:

1. a hallucinogen obtained from Salvia divinorum

  Familiarity information: SALVINORIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALVINORIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hallucinogen obtained from Salvia divinorum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("salvinorin" is a kind of...):

hallucinogen; hallucinogenic drug; psychedelic drug; psychodelic drug (a psychoactive drug that induces hallucinations or altered sensory experiences)

 Context examples 

Both movement and feeding could be altered by giving the mice either salvinorin B or CNO.

(Controlling Brain Circuits in Mice, NIH)

To create a KOR DREADD, or KORD, the researchers mutated KOR so that it was activated by a synthetic chemical called salvinorin B. This chemical could only bind very weakly to KOR and not at all to other receptors in the body.

(Controlling Brain Circuits in Mice, NIH)