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A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.

A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.

Same as Atropine.

es are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.

Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.

white 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.

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

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

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

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.