eserine

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English

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Etymology

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From French ésérine, from éséré, from a West African name for the Calabar bean, +‎ -ine.

Noun

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eserine (plural eserines)

  1. (chemistry) An alkaloid C₁₅H₂₁N₃O₂, originally extracted from the Calabar bean.
    • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 323:
      Thomas Fraser (1841–1920) isolated the alkaloid eserine and made the important discovery that another alkaloid, atropine, blocked some of eserine’s actions.

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