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Quinine vs Quinidine - What's the difference?

quinine | quinidine |

As nouns the difference between quinine and quinidine

is that quinine is a bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water while quinidine is an isomer of quinine that is used as an antiarrhythmic agent.

quinine

Noun

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  • (pharmaceutical drug) A bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water.
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  • See also

    * Jesuit's bark ----

    quinidine

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia quinidine) (-)
  • (organic compound, medicine) An isomer of quinine that is used as an antiarrhythmic agent