Definitions for atropine

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atropine at·ro·pine

Spelling: [a-truh-peen, -pin]

IPA: /ˈæ trəˌpin, -pɪn/

Atropine is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 521 anagrams from letters in atropine (aeinoprt).

Definitions for atropine

noun

1. a poisonous crystalline alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from belladonna and other plants of the nightshade family, that prevents the response of various body structures to certain types of nerve stimulation: used chiefly to relieve spasms, to lessen secretions, and, topically, to dilate the pupil of the eye.

Origin of atropine

1830-40; New Latin Atrop(a) belladonna genus (Greek átropos; see Atropos) + -ine²

Examples for atropine

Victims were treated with atropine, which was somewhat successful in combatting the symptoms.

atropine or curare have no influence on the heart thus poisoned.

After the atropine no lymph-flow occurs on stimulating the nerve.

If there be a tendency to convergence, glasses should be worn and atropine used.

One contains no quinine at all—it is all morphine and atropine.

As for your betrothed, you shall give him a dose of curare or atropine.

Other salts of atropine are not described because used substantially like the above.

Atropin and atropine have been retained in both versions in this project.

atropine is used in veterinary practice, from 32·4 to 64·8 mgrms.

This may be relieved by the hypodermic injection of atropine.