adjective
- treated with or affected by curare; paralyzed or weakened by curare
Usage: medical/scientific
verb
- past tense and past participle of curarize; to treat with curare or a similar paralytic agent
Usage: medical/scientific; transitive
Examples
- The research team curarized the laboratory animals before surgery to prevent movement.
- The curarized patient remained conscious but unable to move during the procedure.
- Doctors curarized the muscle tissue to study its response to electrical stimulation.
- The anesthesiologist curarized the patient to facilitate intubation.
- In the experiment, curarized frogs were used to demonstrate nerve-muscle physiology.