NOUN
- a crystalline acid often used in medical research; obtained from ergotic alkaloids
How To Use lysergic acid In A Sentence
- Fadiman believes that psychedelic molecules such as lysergic acid diethylamide are potential blessings cast into the shadows by hysteria in the 1960s and thus almost wholly lost to legal use, and thus to science, for close to half a century. Craig K. Comstock: Guided Psychedelic Sessions
- All these alkaloids have a basic component in common called lysergic acid. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
- Dimethyltryptamine, bufotenine, mescaline, and lysergic acid amide are mentioned by name in these statutes, LJWorld.com stories: News
- But the real question, the important question was, would my trusty old lysergic acid diethylamide make these beings happy? PAUL IS UNDEAD
- The acetonitrile is evaporated in vacuo leaving a residue which comprises the “normal” and “iso” forms of d-lysergic acid N,N-diethyl amide together with some lysergic acid, the diethylamine salt of trifluoroacetic acid and like by-products. L.S.D., R.I.P.
- The liquid turned out to be distilled morning glory seeds, which contain traces of lysergic acid.
- None of these discoveries would be of much interest outside the lab were it not for some chance observations made in the early 1950s—that, for instance, an antitubercular drug that had induced an unexpected (although not unwelcome) euphoria inhibited an enzyme that breaks down serotonin, or that lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), already famous for its profound effects on consciousness, has a chemical structure similar to serotonin. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
- This was brought home sharply in 1954 when it was discovered (accidentally) that a drug called lysergic acid diethylamide could be used to produce hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms. The Human Brain
- The mechanisms of action of the hallucinogens lysergic acid and psilocybin (magic mushrooms) are complex, with various effects on serotonergic, dopaminergic, and adrenergic receptors.
- The di-iso-lysergic acid N,N-diethyl amide which remains absorbed on the alumia column as the second fluroescent zone is removed from the column by elution with chloroform. L.S.D., R.I.P.