"atropine" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈa.tɹə.piːn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈa.tɹəp.ɪn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈæ.tɹəˌpin/ [General-American] Forms: atropines [plural]
Etymology: From Latin Atropa (“genus of deadly nightshade”) + -ine. Etymology templates: {{af|en|Atropa|-ine|lang1=la|t1=genus of deadly nightshade}} Latin Atropa (“genus of deadly nightshade”) + -ine Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} atropine (countable and uncountable, plural atropines)
  1. (toxicology, pharmacology) An alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other sources, such as the seeds of the thorn-apple. 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). Wikipedia link: atropine Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Alkaloids, Pharmaceutical drugs, Poisons Categories (lifeform): Nightshades Synonyms: atropia [dated] Translations (alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade): atropina [feminine] (Catalan), 阿托品 (ātuōpǐn) (Chinese Mandarin), atropino (Esperanto), atropiini (Finnish), atropine [feminine] (French), Atropin [neuter] (German), ατροπίνη (atropíni) [feminine] (Greek), atropina (Indonesian), atropina [feminine] (Italian), atropina (Malay), atropina [feminine] (Polish), atropina [feminine] (Portuguese), atropină [feminine] (Romanian), атропи́н (atropín) [masculine] (Russian), atropina [feminine] (Spanish), atropin (Swedish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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