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lysergic

1934, from -lys- in hydrolysis + first syllable of ergot + -ic.

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lysergic

a. 1 Used in designation of lysergic acid, lysergic acid diethylamide. 2 trippy, psychedelic

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Usage examples of "lysergic".

A technician, in feeding the augmented wheat rust this morning, discovered unwittingly that the ergot has, as predicted, now developed the capacity to generate effective lysergic acid derivatives.

God knows what reality is for Klysterman now, wrapped up in lysergic ergot like a lungfish in mud.

When an alkanolamine such as ethanolamine or aminopropanol is reacted with the mixed anhydride of lysergic and trifluoroacetic acids, the reaction product contains not only the desired hydroxy amide but also, to a minor extent, some ammo ester.

In the presence of lysergic acid diethylamide, the monoamine oxidase molecules are taken up by the intruder and are unavailable for the oxidation of serotonin.

Far more difficult to explain is the fact, independently observed by several experimenters, that the stroboscope tends to enrich and intensify the visions induced by mescalin or lysergic acid.

A preferred method for carrying out the process of this invention is as follows: Dry lysergic acid is suspended in a suitable vehicle as acetonitrile, and the suspension is cooled to about -15 C.

Lysergic acid diethylamide is said to produce a similar effect, on a smaller scale.

Eighteen years later to the day, the day after my twenty-first birthday, he gave me my first dose of lysergic acid diethylamide under controlled conditions.

The possibility that serotonin in excess produces schizophrenia is greatly weakened, nevertheless, by the fact that a compound very closely related to lysergic acid diethylamide interferes with serotonin oxidation even more and yet produces no hallucinations.

The hallucinogen was similar in many respects to the commonly known Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, or LSD.

N,N-diethyl amide together with some lysergic acid, the diethylamine salt of trifluoroacetic acid and like byproducts.

Well, it would have been something like that because ergot contains lysergic acid amide, which is the prime ingredient of LSD.

He said lysergic acid diethylamide was the last thing he had expected to find and he wanted to be sure, get a second opinion.

He beamed at Rachmael, showing huge gold-capped teeth, which, in the churning froth of excitation induced by the lysergic acid in his brain metabolism, Rachmael experienced as a display of revolting enormity, a disfigurement that made him clutch his cup of syn-cof and shut his eyes.

Very much like the CIA and lysergic acid, if you don't mind a favorite analogy of mine.