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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.

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  1. n. 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.
  2. n. cardiac drug (trade names Quinidex and Quinora) used to treat certain heart arrhythmias
  3. 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. [Written also chinidine.]
  4. An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found incertain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitterwhite crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as afebrifuge. [Written also chinidine.]
  5. n. cardiac drug (trade names Quinidex and Quinora) used to treat certain heart arrhythmias