a. Chem. [f. STRYCHN-OS + -IC.] Pertaining to strychnine. Strychnic acid: = IGASURIC acid.
1840. Pereira, Elem. Mat. Med., II. 909. Strychnic or Igasuric acid.—Exists in the seeds of nux-vomica [etc.].
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 297. Strychnic convulsions must be spinal, because they do not arise in any of the other possible methods.
1889. Hardwicke’s Sci.-Gossip, XXV. 176. A peculiar acid known as strychnic acid.
