Atropine Definition

ătrə-pēn, -pĭn
noun
A poisonous, crystalline alkaloid, C17H23NO3, obtained from belladonna and similar plants: used to relieve spasms and dilate the pupil of the eye.
Webster's New World
A poisonous, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C17 H23 NO3 , obtained from belladonna and other related plants. It is used to dilate the pupils of the eyes and as an antispasmodic.
American Heritage Medicine

(toxicology, pharmacology) An alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other sources. Though overdoses would be fatal it is used as a drug in medicine for its paralytic effects (e.g. in surgery to relax muscles, in dentistry to dry the mouth, in ophthalmology to dilate the pupils).

Wiktionary

Origin of Atropine

  • From New Latin Atropa genus name of belladonna from Greek Atropos Atropos Atropos

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Atropa (“genus of deadly nightshade”) +‎ -ine

    From Wiktionary

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