tubocurarine

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymscurare

   Broaderalkaloidneuromuscular blocking agentplant toxin

Other forms of tubocurarine

plural

tubocurarines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tubocurarine

What does tubocurarine mean?

tubocurarine means "a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles".

How many syllables are in tubocurarine?

tubocurarine has 5 syllables: tu-bo-cu-ra-rine. The stress falls on "cu".

What is another word for tubocurarine?

Close synonyms include curare. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tubocurarine a common word?

tubocurarine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.