curarize

present singular third person curarizes · participle present curarizing · participle past curarized · past curarized

1. transitiveTo administer curare to.

   Curarize the frog sufficiently to paralyze the motor nerves.

   1906, William Townsend Porter, An Introduction to Physiology, page 569

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   Curarize a large frog, and remove the arches from the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth vertebræ.

   1912, John Conrad Hemmeter, Manual of practical physiology, page 193

   It is difficult to curarize vitally stained frogs, and thoroughly curarized animals may be restored by injections of dyestuff (Congo red, trypan blue).

   1924, Chemical Abstracts - Volume 18, page 3224

   In addition, I do not smoke nor does anyone in my laboratory when we curarize rats.

   2017, Paul A. Obrist, A.H. Black, Jasper Brener, Cardiovascular Psychophysiology