scopolamine
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /skəˈpɒləmiːn/
scopolamine
- (pharmaceutical drug) 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.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 176:
- I had been shot full of dope to keep me quiet. Perhaps scopolamine too, to make me talk.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 159:
- The Incas had herbs for headaches and other pains; and they used scopolamine, a poison from the datura plant, as an anaesthetic.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 176:
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