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veratrine Chem.|ˈvɛrətraɪn|
[a. F. vératrine, f. veratr-um + -ine5. The mod.L. form veratrina has also been employed.]
A poisonous vegetable alkaloid or mixture of alkaloids, obtained esp. from various species of Veratrum (as the seeds of V. Sabadilla and the root of V. album), and used medicinally as an ointment for the relief of neuralgia, rheumatism, etc.; veratria.
1822A. T. Thomson Lond. Disp. (ed. 3) 257 Its [sc. Colchicum] acrimony resides in a peculiar alkali, which can be separated from the other principles, and has been named veratrine by M. M. Pelletier and Caventou, who discovered it. 1852W. Gregory Handbk. Org. Chem. (ed. 3) 362 Veratrine, in the form of tincture, and still more in that of ointment,..is now much used. 1883R. Haldane Workshop Receipts Ser. ii. 27/1 Veratrine is easily exhausted from the seeds of Veratrum Sabadilla.
attrib.1865Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 259, I got the thing he mentioned, Veratrine liniment. 1868Watts Dict. Chem. V. 997 A solution of a veratrine-salt, mixed with tartaric acid. |