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Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.

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ite crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine, and isomeric with cinnamic acid.

from which it is extracted as a white amorphous substance. In its action it resembles atropine.

quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes. Chaucer.

Capable of being opined or thought. Holland.

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action. Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inc…

nt oil which has a strong narcotic odor, and a physiological action resembling that of atropine. It is probably related to pyridine.

A hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of propine and allied compounds.

Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.

An alkaloid, C8H13N, obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.

A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the dry distillation of tropine with quicklime. It is regarded as being homologous with dipropargyl.