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cinchonidine [sing-kon-i-deen, -din, sin-] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun Pharmacology. a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble, levorotatory alkaloid, C19H22N2O, stereoisomeric with cinchonine and similarly derived, used chiefly as a quinine substitute. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of cinchonidine First recorded in 1850–55; cinchon(a) + -id3 + -ine2 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for cinchonidine Historical Examples of cinchonidine
Red bark contains not only quinine and cinchonine, but also cinchonidine.
Cooley’s Practical Receipts, Volume II
Arnold Cooley
Cinchonidine, when heated with potassium hydrate, yields quinoline also, and with nitric acid the same products as cinchonine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
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Dr de Vrij states that the substance known under this name is a mixture of hydrochlorate of cinchonidine and of cinchonine.
Cooley’s Practical Receipts, Volume II
Arnold Cooley
Tartrate of potash and soda indicate, under these circumstances, only the presence of cinchonidine.
Cooley’s Practical Receipts, Volume II
Arnold Cooley
If it is chemically pure, cinchonidine belongs to the non-fluorescent alkaloids.
Arnold Cooley
British Dictionary definitions for cinchonidine cinchonidine noun an alkaloid that is a stereoisomer of cinchonine, with similar properties and uses Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
