Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A colorless crystalline alkaloid, C20H24N2O2, resembling quinine and used in treating malaria and cardiac arrhythmias.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A base (C20H24N2O2) isomeric with quinine, and occurring associated with it in some cinchona barks.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun organic chemistry, medicine An isomer of quinine that is used as an antiarrhythmic agent

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun cardiac drug (trade names Quinidex and Quinora) used to treat certain heart arrhythmias

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Examples

  • What we have done is recognized that you can inhibit ones ability to metabolize dextromethorphan by adding quinidine, which is a therapeutic.

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  • What we have done is recognized that you can inhibit ones ability to metabolize dextromethorphan by adding quinidine, which is a therapeutic.

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  • You could consider changing the way you are delivering quinidine which is your 2D6 inhibitor, you could consider looking at other 2D6 inhibitors that might produce the same thing or you might just want to develop a new [analong] for dextromethorphan.

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  • You could consider changing the way you are delivering quinidine which is your 2D6 inhibitor, you could consider looking at other 2D6 inhibitors that might produce the same thing or you might just want to develop a new [analong] for dextromethorphan.

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  • QT-prolonging agents (eg, quinidine, sotalol, thioridazine), quinolones (eg, ciprofloxacin), or streptogramins (eg, mikamycin) because serious, possibly life-threatening side effects on the heart or irregular heartbeat may occur

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  • Quinine, a famous malaria treatment, and quinidine, an antiarrhythmic medication, are made from the bark of the cinchona tree.

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  • Quinine, a famous malaria treatment, and quinidine, an antiarrhythmic medication, are made from the bark of the cinchona tree.

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  • Quinine, a famous malaria treatment, and quinidine, an antiarrhythmic medication, are made from the bark of the cinchona tree.

    Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008

  • Quinine, a famous malaria treatment, and quinidine, an antiarrhythmic medication, are made from the bark of the cinchona tree.

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  • Generic pharmaceuticals are not new since even before 1965 several products appeared on the market such as phenobarbitol, digoxin, quinidine, and many others and nobody paid much attention to them.

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