Definify.com
Definition 2024
scopolamine
scopolamine
English
Noun
scopolamine (countable and uncountable, plural scopolamines)
- (pharmacology) A tropane alkaloid obtained from plants of the nightshade family, used as a sedative, to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils for ophthalmic examination.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 176:
- I had been shot full of dope to keep me quiet. Perhaps scopolamine too, to make me talk.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 176: