a colourless viscous liquid alkaloid extracted from certain plants, such as henbane: used in preventing travel sickness and as an anticholinergic, sedative, and truth serum. Formula: C17H21NO4
Also called: hyoscine. See also atropine
Word origin
C20 scopol- from New Latin scopolia Japonica Japanese belladonna (from which the alkaloid is extracted), named after G. A. Scopoli (1723–88), Italian naturalist, + amine
scopolamine in American English
(skoʊˈpɑləˌmin; skoʊˈpɑləmɪn)
noun
an alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from various plants of the nightshade family, as belladonna, and used in medicine as a sedative or hypnotic, and sometimes with morphine to relieve pain
Word origin
Ger scopolamin < ModL Scopolia, genus of plants in which the alkaloid appears (after G. A. Scopoli (1723-88), of Pavia, Italy) + Ger amin, amine
Examples of 'scopolamine' in a sentence
scopolamine
The depressive alkaloid scopolamine is produced from the fruit of shrubs in the Andes.
Higgins, Jack A SEASON IN HELL (2001)
They discovered not only heroin and cocaine, but a mixture of scopolamine and phenothiazine in his blood.