scopolamine
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Skopolamin, from translingual Scopolia (“genus of plants”) + German Amin (“amine”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /skə(ʊ)ˈpɒl.ə.miːn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /skoʊˈpɑl.əˌmiːn/, /skoʊˈpɑl.əm.ɪn/
Noun edit
scopolamine (countable and uncountable, plural scopolamines)
- (pharmacology) A poisonous alkaloid C17H21NO4 similar to atropine that is found in various solanaceous plants and is used for its anticholinergic effects (such as preventing nausea in motion sickness and inducing mydriasis).
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 176:
- I had been shot full of dope to keep me quiet. Perhaps scopolamine too, to make me talk.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 159:
- The Incas had herbs for headaches and other pains; and they used scopolamine, a poison from the datura plant, as an anaesthetic.
- 2019, Madhukar H. Trivedi, editor, Depression, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 228:
- Scopolamine is a nonselective muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) antagonist with potentially selective inhibitory actions on muscarinic subtypes 1 and 2 (M1 and M2). Unlike ketamine, esketamine, and nitrous oxide, scopolamine directly affects the cholinergic pathway but does not directly modulate the glutamatergic pathway.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
poisonous alkaloid
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French edit
Noun edit
scopolamine f (plural scopolamines)
Further reading edit
- “scopolamine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Noun edit
scopolamine f