Physostigmine Definition

fīsō-stĭgmēn
noun
A colorless or pinkish crystalline alkaloid, C15H21N3O2, extracted from the Calabar bean, used in medicine for stimulating intestinal muscles, contracting the pupils of the eyes, etc.
Webster's New World

(chemistry) A parasympathomimetic, a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor alkaloid of the Calabar bean, used to treat certain medical conditions.

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Noun

Singular:
physostigmine
Plural:
physostigmines

Origin of Physostigmine

  • New Latin Phȳsostigma genus name of the Calabar bean (Greek phūsa bellows) (stigma) –ine

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Physostigmine Sentence Examples

  • That this action is a direct and not a nervous one is shown by the fact that if the eye be suddenly shaded the pupil will dilate a little, showing that the nerves which cause dilatation are still competent after the administration of physostigmine.

  • It is a physiological antagonist of chloral hydrate, morphine and physostigmine, and may be given in poisoning by these drugs.

  • For the use of the oculist, who constantly employs this drug, it is also prepared in lamellae for insertion within the conjunctival sac. Each of these contains one-thousandth part of a grain of physostigmine sulphate, a quantity which is perfectly efficient.

  • Physostigmine has no action on the unbroken skin.

  • Physostigmine, indeed, stimulates nearly all the non-striped muscles in the body, and this action upon the muscular coats of the arteries, and especially of the arterioles, causes a great rise in blood-pressure shortly after its absorption, which is very rapid.

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