Pilocarpine Definition

pīlō-kärpēn
noun
An alkaloid, C11H16N2O2, extracted from the leaves of the jaborandi plant and used in medicine to stimulate sweating or to contract the pupil of the eye.
Webster's New World

(biochemistry) A muscarinic alkaloid obtained from the leaves of tropical American shrubs from the genus Pilocarpus.

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Origin of Pilocarpine

  • New Latin Pīlocarpus jaborandi genus (Greek pīlos wool, felt) (Greek karpos fruit –carp) –ine

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pilocarpine Sentence Examples

  • Do not employ such physiological antagonists as pilocarpine or morphine, for the lethal actions of all these drugs exhibit not mutual antagonism but coincidence.

  • Pilocarpine has an action closely allied to that of nicotine, but as it is much less poisonous (the effects produced by small doses being chiefly excessive sweating and salivation), it is capable of being utilized in medicine.

  • Muscarine has a very close resemblance in action to pilocarpine.

  • Preliminary data indicate that stress can increase lithium pilocarpine toxicity in rats.

  • Pretreatment with the M2 receptor agonist pilocarpine increased histamine PC20, at baseline, indicating normal function of the neuronal M2 muscarinic receptor.

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