"Papaverine" is a word in ENGLISH

papaverine ENGLISH
Definition:

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic
action than morphine.

Few words of positivity

... as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing.

Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

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Laugh your heart out.

One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attemptsto earn some money as a street performer. Unfortunately, assoon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zoo keeper grabs him anddrags him into his office. The zoo-keeper explains to the mime that the zoo's mostpopular attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly and thekeeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. Heoffers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla until theycan get another one. The mime accepts. So the next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit andenters the cage before crowd comes. He discovers that it's agreat job. He can sleep all he wants, play and make fun ofpeople and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime.However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he tires ofjust swinging on tires. He begins to notice that the people are paying moreattention to the lion in the cag e next to his. Not wanting tolose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top ofhis cage, crawls across a partition, and dangles from the topto the lion's cage. Of course, this makes the lion furious,but the crowd loves it. At the end of the day the zoo-keepercomes and gives the mime a raise for being such a goodattraction. Well, this goes on for some time, the mime keeps tauntingthe lion, the crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps goingup. Then one terrible day when he is dangling over thefurious lion, he slips and falls. The mime is terrified. Thelion gathers itself and prepares to pounce. The mime is so scared that he begins to run round and roundthe cage with the lion close behind. Finally, the mime startsscreaming and yelling, "Help, Help me!" but the lion is quickand pounces. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up atthe angry lion and the lion says, " Shut up you idiot! Do youwant to get us both fired?"

aconitine ENGLISH

An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite.

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alkaloid ENGLISH

An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the …

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alkaloid ENGLISH

Alt. of Alkaloidal

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alkaloidal ENGLISH

Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.

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antipyrine ENGLISH

An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.

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apomorphine ENGLISH

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

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aricine ENGLISH

An alkaloid, first found in white cinchona bark.

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arnicine ENGLISH

An alkaloid obtained from the arnica plant.

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atropine ENGLISH

A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. …

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bebirine ENGLISH

An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, …

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belladonna ENGLISH

An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit …

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berberine ENGLISH

An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.

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brucine ENGLISH

A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux …

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buxine ENGLISH

An alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree. It is identical with bebeerine; -- called also buxina.

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caffeine ENGLISH

A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with …

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calabarine ENGLISH

An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean.

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capsicine ENGLISH

A volatile alkaloid extracted from Capsicum annuum or from capsicin.

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chelerythrine ENGLISH

An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless …

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cinchona ENGLISH

The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' …

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cinchonidine ENGLISH

One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, …

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