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

Atropine Sentence Examples

  • The treatment is to empty the stomach by tube or by a non-depressant emetic. The physiological antidotes are atropine and digitalin or strophanthin, which should be injected subcutaneously in maximal doses.

  • Use hot bottles and stimulants, especially trying to counteract the cardiac depression by atropine, caffeine, strophanthin, &c.

  • Piperine, conine, atropine, belladonine, cocaine, hyoscyamine and nicotine have been already synthesized; the constitution of several others requires confirmation, while there remain many important alkaloids - quinine, morphine, strychnine, &c. - whose constitution remains unknown.

  • There is a marked antagonism in nearly all important particulars between the actions of physostigmine and of atropine.

  • Unfortunately the antagonism between physostigmine and atropine is not perfect, and Sir Thomas Fraser has shown that in such cases there comes a time when, if the action of the two drugs be summated, death results sooner than from either alone.

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