curare

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But I'd rather deal with a porcupine dipped in curare than XML.

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a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles; "curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction"

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noun

a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles; "curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction"

Definitions

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noun

a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles; "curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction"

Example sentences

But I'd rather deal with a porcupine dipped in curare than XML.

Yeah, I mean, you CAN at least parse a porcupine dipped in curare with Regexes.

Doing 5 minutes if searching and looking at your links it looks like quinine and curare are two of them.

We have paralyzed his diaphragm with curare to override the muscle spasms, and so we must fog his mind with a cocktail of drugs.

For example, we have already made this mistake by using curare alone as an anesthetic - presuming that a lack of automatic pain response, and ability to communicate feeling of pain means that one doesn't feel pain.

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How do you use curare in a sentence?

But I'd rather deal with a porcupine dipped in curare than XML.

What does curare mean?

a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles; "curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction"