Definitions for hyoscyamine

hyoscyamine hy·os·cy·a·mine

Spelling: [hahy-uh-sahy-uh-meen, -min]
IPA: /ˌhaɪ əˈsaɪ əˌmin, -mɪn/

Hyoscyamine is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 886 anagrams from letters in hyoscyamine (acehimnosyy).

Definitions for hyoscyamine

noun

  1. a poisonous alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from henbane and other solanaceous plants, used as a sedative, analgesic, mydriatic, and antispasmodic.

Origin of hyoscyamine

First recorded in 1855-60; hyoscyam(us) + -ine2

Examples for hyoscyamine

In 1832 Robiquet discovered codeine; and in 1833 atropine, aconitine, and hyoscyamine were distinguished by Geiger and Hesse.

hyoscyamine gives no crystalline sublimate; it melts at 89°, and appears to volatilise in great part without decomposition.

hyoscyamine crystallizes in the acicular form, with greater difficulty even than atropine, it also forms less compact crystals.

The derivative preparations, hyoscyamine and hyoscyamia, are preferable for use in this class of cases.

hyoscyamine neutralises acids fully, and forms crystallisable salts, which assume for the most part the form of needles.

hyoscyamine is mainly identified by its power of dilating the pupil of the eye.

I think, therefore, that both Planta and Schmidt must have worked with a mixture of atropine and hyoscyamine.

The latter plant was considered to contain a new alkaloid, “Duboisine,” but duboisine is a mixture of hyoscyamine and hyoscine.

According to a research by Ladenburg, hyoscyamine is associated with atropine, both in the Belladonna and Datura plants.

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