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hyoscine

[ hahy-uh-seen, -sin ]

noun

, Pharmacology.


hyoscine

/ ˈhaɪəˌsiːn /

noun

  1. another name for scopolamine
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hyoscine1

First recorded in 1870–75; hyosc(yamus) + -ine 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hyoscine1

C19: from hyosc ( yamus ) + -ine ²
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Example Sentences

Other salts of Hyoscine are not described because used substantially as the above.

According to this view hyoscyamine ought to be the hyoscinate of hyoscine, or at any rate an isomer of this body.

The latter plant was considered to contain a new alkaloid, “Duboisine,” but duboisine is a mixture of hyoscyamine and hyoscine.

If the patient becomes very delirious and is in no way depressed, chloral or hyoscine should be given.

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