quinidine

noun

A colorless crystalline alkaloid, C20H24N2O2, resembling quinine and used in treating malaria and cardiac arrhythmias.

noun

A base (C20H24N2O2) isomeric with quinine, and occurring associated with it in some cinchona barks.

noun

An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge.

noun

An isomer of quinine that is used as an antiarrhythmic agent

noun

cardiac drug (trade names Quinidex and Quinora) used to treat certain heart arrhythmias