curarize
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editcurarize (third-person singular simple present curarizes, present participle curarizing, simple past and past participle curarized)
- (transitive) To administer curare to.
- 1906, William Townsend Porter, An Introduction to Physiology, page 569:
- Curarize the frog sufficiently to paralyze the motor nerves.
- 1912, John Conrad Hemmeter, Manual of practical physiology, page 193:
- Curarize a large frog, and remove the arches from the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth vertebræ.
- 1924, Chemical Abstracts - Volume 18, page 3224:
- It is difficult to curarize vitally stained frogs, and thoroughly curarized animals may be restored by injections of dyestuff (Congo red, trypan blue).
- 2017, Paul A. Obrist, A.H. Black, Jasper Brener, Cardiovascular Psychophysiology:
- In addition, I do not smoke nor does anyone in my laboratory when we curarize rats.