To treat, coat, or poison something with curare; to paralyze or immobilize using this poison.
From 'curare' + suffix '-ize' (meaning to cause or make). Entered English medical terminology in the 19th century as scientists studied South American indigenous warfare.
When researchers first studied curare in laboratories, they realized this plant poison acted like a key that blocks messages between nerves and muscles—leading to modern surgical medicines!
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