单词 | curare |
释义 | curare (once / 37883 pages) n WORD FAMILY curare USAGE EXAMPLESLike the ecclesiastical “curate” or the museum “curator,” it comes from the Latin curare, which means “to take care of.” Washington Post(Oct 11, 2016) It was a member of a group of flowers that are today the source of the poisons strychnine and curare. Reuters(Feb 15, 2016) But shutting down the entire rail system is like injecting the drug curare into a beating heart. Washington Post(Feb 05, 2016) n a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction Syn|Hyper tubocurarine alkaloid natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants neuromuscular blocking agenta substance that interferes with the neural transmission between motor neurons and skeletal muscles phytotoxin, plant toxinany substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin |
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