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n. A bitter, colorless, amorphous powder or crystalline alkaloid, C20H24N2O2·3H2O, derived from certain cinchona barks and used in medicine to treat malaria.

n. Any of various compounds or salts of quinine.

n. A bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water.

n. An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc.

n. A very important vegetable alkali (C20H24N2O2), obtained from the bark of several trees of the genus Cinchona.

n. a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy

"Many men indulge in what we call the quinine habit."

antimalarial drug    antimalarial   

brandes's test for quinine    florida quinine    wild quinine    Jesuit's bark   

quinia    quinina    chinine   

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