menisperminen.
/mɛnᵻˈspəːmiːn/, U.S. /ˌmɛnəˈspərmin/ Chemistry.
A colourless crystalline alkaloid, C18H24N2O2, obtained from the fruit of cocculus indicus, Anamirta (formerly Menispermum) cocculus, and the moonseed, Menispermum canadense.
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aconite1569
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ipoh1779
upas1783
tanghin1788
picrotoxin1815
nicotine1817
strychnine1819
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strychnia1823
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strychnina1838
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conia1842
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oenanthin1848
menispermine1849
tetanine1857
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nicotylia1862
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xylostein1864
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1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 224 Menispermina..is white and opaque, and has very much the external appearance of cyanodide of mercury.]
1849 Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 16 134 One of these cases [of isomerism] is that of the two bases discovered by Pelletier and Couerbe in the husks of the Cocculus Indicus, to which they have given the names of Menispermin and Paramenispermin.
1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 103 An alkaloid Menispermine.
1906 H. F. Morley & M. M. P. Muir Watts' Dict. Chem. III. 202/2 To extract the menispermine, the alcoholic extract of the seeds is first treated with cold water.
1951 A. Grollman Pharmacol. & Therapeutics xix. 372 The group [sc. simple bitters] comprises several alkaloids, Berberine, Buxine, Menispermine and Canadine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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