quinine
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- noun
- /ˈkwɪnaɪn/
- Specialized
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quina
- When white people arrive and administer quinine, the medicine for malaria, the tribe members get well again.
- intravenous quinine
- quinine treatment
- drug quinine
Examples
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From our arrival in the Congo, Lang and I had been taking about ten grains of quinine every other day.
Academic text (1990) -
The doctor prescribed quinine to help treat the malaria outbreak in the village.
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And we need all the quinine we have.
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Did you get the quinine?
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- You taking your quinine?
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She'd gone to get quinine for you.
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My mother had returned with some quinine, a miracle drug then, very hard to get.
Fiction book (1990) -
Did you know on this last trip we traded our cane for 20 cases of quinine?
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Patients judged as clinical treatment failures within 14 days of diagnosis were given quinine.
Academic text (2002) -
Sometimes quinine was administered with the strategy of lowering a patient's fever.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Quinine comes from the Quechua word kina meaning 'bark', and then into Spanish as quina, because people made medicine from the bark of cinchona trees in South America. That's why quinine is a bitter substance used to treat malaria and why it gives tonic water its bitter taste.