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Answer for the clue "Cardiac drug (trade names Quinidex and Quinora) used to treat certain heart arrhythmias ", 9 letters:
quinidine

Word definitions for quinidine in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context organic compound medicine English) An isomer of quinine that is used as an antiarrhythmic agent.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quinidine \Quin"i*dine\, n. (Chem.) 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. [Written also ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Quinidine is a pharmaceutical agent that acts as a class I antiarrhythmic agent (Ia) in the heart . It is a stereoisomer of quinine , originally derived from the bark of the cinchona tree. The drug causes increased action potential duration, as well as ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. cardiac drug (trade names Quinidex and Quinora) used to treat certain heart arrhythmias [syn: Quinidex , Quinora ]