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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bitter, colorless alkaloid, C7H8N4O2, present in cacao beans and in smaller amounts in tea leaves, kola nuts, and other plant parts, and used in medicine as a diuretic, vasodilator, and myocardial stimulant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline alkaloid (C7H8N4O2), forming salts with acids, volatile and very bitter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) An alkaloidal ureide, C7H8N4O2, homologous with and resembling caffeine, produced artificially, and also extracted from cacao and chocolate (from
Theobroma Cacao ) as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called alsodimethyl xanthine .
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- noun chemistry An
alkaloid , of similar structure tocaffeine , found inchocolate andcocoa .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The biggie that most people have heard about is the caffeine relative called theobromine, which is the one usually shown on "I heart chocolate" tee-shirts, so that's a good place to start, with its trippy endorphins to create a pleasant buzz.
rashbre central rashbre 2010
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* Chocolate in any form is extremely toxic to man's best friend as it contains a harmful chemical called theobromine, which is fine for humans but is very dangerous for dogs
Dog Magazine dot net - Home of K9 Magazine Freelance Writers 2009
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Chocolate is the richest known source of a little-known substance called theobromine, a close chemical relative of caffeine.
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The stimulant theobromine, which is also a diuretic.
Leo Galland, M.D.: Holiday Food And Drug Combinations You Should Avoid M.D. Leo Galland 2010
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BC1036, also known as theobromine, is the highly-anticipated antitussive drug candidate that Pernix management had yet to disclose the name of but previously noted could have enormous potential.
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Chocolate contains the compound theobromine which is a diuretic as well as a cardiac stimulant.
Ur instrucshuns - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The CEO stressed that theobromine which is a component found in cocoa serves as drug in the production and free flow of urine in cases in where accumulation of body fluids has resulted from heat failure.
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Something called phosphodiesterase inhibitors or methylxanthines are found in coffee and theobromine which is in chocolate can impact on mood.
CTV News RSS Feed Dr. Marla Shapiro 2010
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As a stimulant, chocolate's theobromine, historically used as an aphrodisiac, is a vasodilator, meaning it widens blood vessels, and is used to lower blood pressure.
Alex Jamieson: Healing Hearts With Chia and Chocolate Alex Jamieson 2012
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Chocolate contains caffeine and theobromine -- both mental stimulants -- phenylethylamine (PEA), which raises our blood pressure and heart rate, and tryptophan, which helps release serotonin (sugar also produces that effect).
EatingWell: The Neurologic Connection Between Kissing and Chocolate EatingWell 2011
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Chocolate does contain several molecules with known pharmacological effects including theobromine, a stimulant primarily found in chocolate (which is the reason dogs can’t eat it); caffeine; phenylethylamine, which has been described as “an immediate shot of happiness”; and others.
America’s chocolate tastes weird to the rest of the world, but most of us don’t even notice Tove Danovich 2022
reesetee commented on the word theobromine
A bitter, colorless alkaloid, derived from the cacao bean, found in chocolate products and used in medicine as a diuretic, vasodilator, and myocardial stimulant.
From Greek theo- (comb. form of theós, "god") + br�?ma "food"
February 9, 2007