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Scopolamine

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Noun

1. hyoscine, scopolamine

an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures

Example Sentences:
'transdermal scopolamine is used to treat motion sickness'
'someone sedated with scopolamine has difficulty lying'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Scopolamine

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noun
a colourless viscous liquid alkaloid extracted from certain plants, such as henbane: used in preventing travel sickness and as an anticholinergic, sedative, and truth serum. Formula: C17H21NO4
. Also called: hyoscine See also atropine

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Scopolamine

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noun
an alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from various plants of the nightshade family, as belladonna, and used in medicine as a sedative or hypnotic, and sometimes with morphine to relieve pain

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Scopolamine

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n.
An alkaloid drug, C17H21NO4, extracted from plants such as henbane and used primarily to treat motion sickness and nausea and to dilate the pupil. Also called hyoscine.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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