TUBOCURARINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tubocurarine mean? 

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

1. a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUBOCURARINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

curare; tubocurarine

Context example:

curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction

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

alkaloid (natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants)

neuromuscular blocking agent (a substance that interferes with the neural transmission between motor neurons and skeletal muscles)

phytotoxin; plant toxin (any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin)