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nicotine

DEFINITIONS OF: nicotine

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n an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide

Type of:
pressor, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor
any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure
alkaloid
natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants
phytotoxin, plant toxin
any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin
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