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An alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures
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scopolamine
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n. (context pharmaceutical drug English) A tropane alkaloid obtained from plants of the nightshade family, used as a sedative, to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils for ophthalmic examination.
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n. an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures; "transdermal scopolamine is used to treat motion sickness"; "someone sedated with scopolamine has difficulty lying" ...
Usage examples of scopolamine.
Holmes, the attending physician of the woman whom we had seen anesthetized, missed his syringe and the bottle of scopolamine.
In fact, we’ve been isolating medically useful alkaloids from altered leaf protoplasts for several generations — things like atropine and scopolamine and the belladonna that some of the ladies use to make their eyes more beautiful.
If they are, it must be the scopolamine side chain we couldn’.