quinine
Kelime Anlamı :

1. kinin.
2. Cinchema'dan çıkarılan beyaz acı bir akaloid olup, mukavvi ve nöbet kesicidir, kinin (C20H21N2 O).
3. (isim) kinin.
Tanımlar :
1. A bitter, colorless, amorphous powder or crystalline alkaloid, C20H24N2O2·3H2O, derived from certain cinchona barks and used in medicine to treat malaria.
2. any of various compounds or salts of quinine.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. A bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. A very important vegetable alkali (C20H24N2O2), obtained from the bark of several trees of the genus cinchona.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy
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