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Definition of: glaucine
(glô′sēn, -sin) noun Biochem.
A yellowish, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C21H25O4N, from the sap of the yellow-horned poppy (Glaucium flavum): it suspends heart action and inhibits muscular sensibility.
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