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physostigmines

physostigmines is the plural of physostigmine.

Meaning of physostigmine

Noun

physostigmine (countable and uncountable, plural physostigmines)

  1. A parasympathomimetic, a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor alkaloid of the Calabar bean, used to treat certain medical conditions.
    • The substance is physostigmine, a drug first isolated from the Calabar bean (Physostigmine venenosum), a climbing liana that grows in swampy coastal areas of West Africa from Sierra Leone south and east as far as the Cameroons.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 40

Questions about physostigmines

What is physostigmines the plural of?
Physostigmines is the plural of physostigmine.

Words near physostigmines in the dictionary

  1. physonome
  2. physonomes
  3. physopod
  4. physopods
  5. physostigmine
  6. physostigmines
  7. physostome
  8. physostomes
  9. physostomous
  10. physovenine
  11. physoxia

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