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UK
/ˈælkɐlˌɔɪd/
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[ US /ˈæɫkəˌɫɔɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈæɫkəˌɫɔɪd/ ]
NOUN
- natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants
How To Use alkaloid In A Sentence
- The tropane alkaloids scopolamine and hyoscyamine were extracted and analysed from N. tabacum cultured hairy roots.
- They are probably allied to neurine, an alkaloid obtained from the brain and also from the bile. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
- Aconite root contains about 0.4 per cent. of alkaloid and one-fifteenth of a grain of the alkaloid is a lethal dose. The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
- Because of their ability to cause peripheral vasoconstriction, ergot alkaloids should not be used chronically.
- He found that the psychotomimetic ingredient in all of them was some kind of anticholinergic alkaloid—very similar to atropine and scopolamine. Over the Edge
- Lipids, sterols and a piperidine alkaloid from Prosopis spigigera leaves. Chapter 5
- The key enzyme in initial stages of alkaloid biosynthesis is tryptophan decarboxylase.
- Cinchona bark contains two alkaloids, cinchonia and quina, to which its active properties are due; the former is best obtained from gray bark, the latter from yellow bark. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
- He began by manipulating its basic nucleus, a compound known as lysergic acid, the fundamental building block of all the ergot alkaloids. One River
- Diuretics can be found in terpenes, phenolics and alkaloids.