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Meaning of "muscarine" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MUSCARINE

From Latin muscārius of flies, from musca fly.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MUSCARINE

muscarine  [ˈmʌskərɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MUSCARINE

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Muscarine is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MUSCARINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

muscarine

Muscarine

Muscarine, L--muscarine, or muscarin is a natural product found in certain mushrooms, particularly in Inocybe and Clitocybe species, such as the deadly C. dealbata. Mushrooms in the genera Entoloma and Mycena have also been found to contain levels of muscarine which can be dangerous if ingested. Muscarine has been found in harmless trace amounts in Boletus, Hygrocybe, Lactarius and Russula. Muscarine is only a trace compound in the fly agaric Amanita muscaria; the pharmacologically more relevant compound from this mushroom is muscimol. The A. muscaria contains a variable dose of muscarine, usually around 0.0003% fresh weight. This is very low and toxicity symptoms occur very rarely. Inocybe and Clitocybe contain muscarine concentrations up to 1.6%. It is a nonselective agonist of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor.

Definition of muscarine in the English dictionary

The definition of muscarine in the dictionary is a poisonous alkaloid occurring in certain mushrooms. Formula: C9H21NO3.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MUSCARINE


aneurin
əˈnjʊərɪn
burin
ˈbjʊərɪn
cholesterin
kəˈlestərɪn
Erin
ˈɪərɪn
fiorin
ˈfaɪərɪn
glycerine
ˈɡlɪsərɪn
heparin
ˈhɛpərɪn
Katharine
ˈkæθərɪn
Katherine
ˈkæθərɪn
mandarin
ˈmændərɪn
margarin
ˈmɑːɡərɪn
Mazarin
ˈmæzərɪn
navarin
ˈnævərɪn
nectarine
ˈnɛktərɪn
nitroglycerin
ˌnaɪtrəʊˈɡlɪsərɪn
purin
ˈpjʊərɪn
saccharin
ˈsækərɪn
tamarin
ˈtæmərɪn
urine
ˈjʊərɪn
warfarin
ˈwɔːfərɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MUSCARINE

muscadel
muscadelle
Muscadet
muscadin
muscadine
Muscae
muscae volitantes
muscardine
muscarinic
muscat
Muscat and Oman
muscatel
muscatorium
muscavado
muscid
muscle
muscle fibre
muscle mary
muscle sense
muscle shirt

WORDS THAT END LIKE MUSCARINE

alizarine
antisubmarine
aquamarine
Catherine
dead marine
estuarine
larine
margarine
marine
mazarine
mercantile marine
merchant marine
narine
nuclear submarine
oleomargarine
saccharine
soft margarine
stearine
submarine
transmarine
ultramarine

Synonyms and antonyms of muscarine in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «muscarine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MUSCARINE

Find out the translation of muscarine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of muscarine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «muscarine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

毒蕈碱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

muscarina
570 millions of speakers

English

muscarine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

muscarine
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مسكارين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мускарином
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

muscarine
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

muscarine
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

muscarine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Muscarine
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Muscarin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ムスカリン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

muscarine
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Muscarine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

muscarine
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

muscarine
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मस्केरिन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

muskarin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

muscarina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

muskarynę
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мускарином
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

muscarina
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μουσκαρίνη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

muscarien
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

muskarin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

muskarine
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of muscarine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MUSCARINE»

The term «muscarine» is normally little used and occupies the 126.034 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MUSCARINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «muscarine» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «muscarine» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about muscarine

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUSCARINE»

Discover the use of muscarine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to muscarine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northern United States and Canada
Muscarine is a toxin found in various families of mushrooms, which affects the parasympathetic nerve endings of the autonomic nervous system. Muscarine was the first mushroom toxin to be isolated from and named after a poisonous ...
Joseph F. Ammirati, 1985
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Handbook of Mushroom Poisoning: Diagnosis and Treatment
Once the number of activated sites falls below the threshold figure, the synapse ceases transmission and is now ready to accept a new signal. Naturally occurring L-( + )-muscarine has a molecular structure that is in part similar to acetylcholine  ...
Barry H. Rumack, David G. Spoerke, 1994
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Toxic Plants
The lethal dose of muscarine depends on the route of administration. In the mouse the LD50 of muscarine chloride is approximately 0.2 mg/kg when administered intravenously, but muscarine is much less toxic when given orally ( Fraser 1957) ...
A. Douglas Kinghorn, 2013
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Small Animal Toxicology
Muscarine Mushrooms in the genera Inocybe and Clitocybe spp. contain the highest concentrations of muscarine, but Entoloma spp., Mycena spp., Boletus spp., Rubinoboletus spp., and A. muscaria also contain muscarine, yet in much lower ...
Michael E. Peterson, Patricia A. Talcott, 2013
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Synthesis of Essential Drugs
Synonyms of this drug are duvoid, miotonin, and urecholine. 13.1.2 Natural muscarinic alkaloids Muscarine: Muscarine, 2-methyl-3-hydroxy-5-(N,N,N- trimethylammonium) methylentetrahydrofuran chloride (13.1.14), was first isolated from the ...
Ruben Vardanyan, Victor Hruby, 2006
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Handbook of Natural Toxins: Food Poisoning
A large number of similar-looking Inocybe species also exist that contain varying amounts of muscarine, among them I. fastigiata (Schiff. ex. Fr.), the straw-colored fiber head, 7. fibrosa, the white Inocybe, and 7. geophylla. An enumeration of all ...
Anthony Tu, 1992
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A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action ...
In embryo hearts muscarine, in ordinary quantities, produces no change whatever during the first 150 hours of life (in the chick). The explanation of this phenomenon is that the inhibitory nerves have not been developed at this stage, and after ...
Arthur Robertson Cushny, 1918
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Invitation to Organic Chemistry
The mushroom presumed to be the culprit is Amanita muscaria, which grows in Sir Eugene's locality and is known to contain the deadly poisonous compound muscarine. Muscarine is a bifunctional compound containing a secondary alcohol ...
Alyn William Johnson, 1999
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Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry
The profound muscarinic activity of the alkaloid muscarine provided substantial rationale for synthesizing ethers of choline. Muscarine, which is obtained from the red variety of mushroom {Amanita muscaria) and other mushrooms is one of the ...
Thomas L. Lemke, David A. Williams, 2008
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Medical Toxicology of Natural Substances: Foods, Fungi, ...
Properties. L-(+)-Muscarine, which is the quaternary trimethylammonium salt of 2- methyl-3-oxy-5-(aminomethyl) tetrahydrofuran, is the major constituent of toxic mushrooms from the genera Clitocybe and Inocybe.5 This compound binds to the  ...
Donald G. Barceloux, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUSCARINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term muscarine is used in the context of the following news items.
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Poisonous Rare Plant Used by Russian, Chinese Assassins
... that block transmission at the neuromuscular junction and other sites with muscarine or nicotinic receptors. The journal added that symptoms ... «Canada Free Press, Jul 15»
2
AstraZeneca plc (ADR) COPD Drug Effective In Phase III Trials
PT003 works by combining a long-acting beta-2 agonist (LABA) and a long-acting muscarine antagonist (LAMA). AstraZeneca, however, is not ... «Bidness ETC, Mar 15»
3
Test your knowledge
These symptoms are consistent with cholinergic poisoning, caused by the ingestion of cholinergic toxins like muscarine, ibotenic acid and ... «6minutes, Jan 15»
4
Eating Mushrooms Would Have Horrible Effects On Mario In Real Life
Luigi could have given him some Atropine to counter a possible Muscarine poisoning. 220Reply. Flagged. Show more repliesShow more ... «Kotaku, Jun 14»
5
India has high incidence of oral cancer, say doctors
Here, Areca nut, a common component of betel quid, contains the alkaloid drugs arecoline, muscarine and pilocarpine, which in small doses ... «Times of India, May 12»
6
Tobacco Use: It's A Fatal Addiction
Here, Areca nut, a common component of betel quid, contains the alkaloid drugs arecoline, muscarine and pilocarpine, which in small doses ... «Times of India, May 11»
7
A Primer on Symptoms of Foodborne Illness
Muscarinic Mushroom Poisoning: Many species of mushrooms in the genus' Inocybe and Clitocybe contain muscarine, a substance that ... «Food Safety News, Sep 10»
8
The Mistaken Mushroom
What I had was muscarine poisoning, which shuts down the parasympathetic nervous system, causing nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, painful ... «New York Times, Sep 10»
9
Turkish delights can be deadly
Panther caps contain muscarine which causes vomiting, sweating, diarrhea and tears and can in large enough quantities causes the lungs to ... «Asia Times Online, Nov 08»
10
New and Improved Deadly Snail Venom
... forms of chemical weapon nerve agents and a number of pesticides as well), muscarine (such as from certain forms of mushroom poisoning, ... «Slashdot, Jul 07»

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