atropine

English

Alternative forms

• atropia (dated)

Etymology

From Latin Atropa (“genus of deadly nightshade”) +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tɹə.piːn/, /ˈa.tɹəp.ɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.tɹəˌpin/

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).

Derived terms

• apoatropine
• atropinic
• atropinism
• atropinization
• atropinize
• atropism
• benzatropine
• homatropine
• ipratropium
• methylatropine
• octatropine
• revatropate
• trop-, -trop-

 

Translations

alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade

• Catalan: atropina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿托品 (zh) (ātuōpǐn)

• Esperanto: atropino
• Finnish: atropiini (fi)
• French: atropine (fr) f
• German: Atropin (de) n
• Greek: ατροπίνη (el) f (atropíni)
• Indonesian: atropina
• Italian: atropina (it) f
• Malay: atropina
• Polish: atropina (pl) f
• Portuguese: atropina f
• Romanian: atropină (ro) f
• Russian: атропи́н (ru) m (atropín)
• Spanish: atropina f
• Swedish: atropin (sv)

Anagrams

• apertion, apritone, entropia, operatin'

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tʁɔ.pin/

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Noun

atropine f (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) atropine

Further reading

• “atropine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

atropine f

1. plural of atropina

Anagrams

• Partenio, entropia, operanti, paretoni, partenio, paterino, patinerò, pianterò, prenotai, pritaneo, proteina, ripetano