scopolamine

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Skopolamin, from translingual Scopolia (genus of plants) +‎ German Amin (amine).

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Noun

scopolamine (countable and uncountable, plural scopolamines)

  1. (pharmacology) A poisonous alkaloid C17H21NO4 similar to atropine that is found in various solanaceous plants and is used for its anticholinergic effects (such as preventing nausea in motion sickness and inducing mydriasis).
    Synonym: devil's breath
    • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 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, published 2016, page 159:
      The Incas had herbs for headaches and other pains; and they used scopolamine, a poison from the datura plant, as an anaesthetic.
    • 2019, Madhukar H. Trivedi, editor, Depression, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 228:
      Scopolamine is a nonselective muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) antagonist with potentially selective inhibitory actions on muscarinic subtypes 1 and 2 (M1 and M2). Unlike ketamine, esketamine, and nitrous oxide, scopolamine directly affects the cholinergic pathway but does not directly modulate the glutamatergic pathway.

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French

Noun

scopolamine f (plural scopolamines)

  1. scopolamine

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Italian

Noun

scopolamine f

  1. plural of scopolamina