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SCOPOLAMIN

\skˈɒpəlˌamɪn], \skˈɒpəlˌamɪn], \s_k_ˈɒ_p_ə_l_ˌa_m_ɪ_n]\

Definitions of SCOPOLAMIN

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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Poisonous mydriatic alkaloid from plants of the genus Scopolia, etc.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

An alkaloid, C17H21NO4, found in many solanaceous plants. It is identical with hyoscin. It is used with morphin as an anesthetic. S. exists in an optically inactive and a two-rotary form. See atroscin. It is atropate of scopolin or oscin.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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