An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc.
The drug treatment for malaria
a drug used to cure and prevent malaria that comes from Peruvian bark
A bitter medicinal extract (a crystalline alkaloid) from the bark of the cinchona tree that is found in the Andes of Ecuador and Peru. Quinine is used as an antimalarial, antipyretic, and anitperiodic.
A bitter crystalline alkaloid from cinchona bark used in medicine.
a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy
a medication used to treat malaria (a disease caused by a parasite that lives part of its life in humans and part in mosquitoes).
A drug used against malaria, obtained from the bark of the cinchona tree.
Quinine is a flavor component of tonic water. According to tradition, the bitter taste of antimalarial quinine tonic led British colonials in India to mix it with gin, thus creating the gin and tonic cocktail.
The original antimalarial agent, quinine took its name from the Peruvian Indian word "kina" meaning "bark of the tree" referring to the cinchona tree. From this tree, quinine was first obtained. The Peruvian Indians called it "the fever tree." See the entire definition of Quinine
A bitter-tasting drug obtained from the bark of the cinchona tree. This plant is related to coffee and gardenia. Quinine has been used in the treatment of malaria.
chemical isolated from the bark of the South American cinchona tree that has been used to treat malaria.
Quinine is a drug that is used to treat malaria.
Quinine is a bitter, white crystalline substance derived from cinchona bark. Usually administered in the form of a salt, quinine is primarily used to treat pain and malaria.
Quinine is a chemical that cures malaria, a tropical disease carried by mosquitoes. Quinine is found in the bark of the cinchona tree. South American natives have used cinchona bark to cure malaria for ages, and call the cinchona tree the "fever tree." In 1820, Pelletier and Caventou isolated a quinoline alkaloid from cinchona bark; they called it Quinine.
Quinine is a natural white crystalline alkaloid having antipyretic, anti-malarial with analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties and a bitter taste. It is a stereoisomer of quinidine.