hyoscine

American

[hahy-uh-seen, -sin] / ˈhaɪ əˌsin, -sɪn /

noun

Pharmacology.

scopolamine.

hyoscine British

/ ˈhaɪəˌsiːn /

noun

another name for scopolamine

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Etymology

Origin of hyoscine

First recorded in 1870–75; hyosc(yamus) + -ine ²

Example Sentences

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

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 by Various

She laughed again, and began to chant in burlesque Gregorian, “Hyopotamus, hyoscapular, hyoscine, Hyoscyame�, hyoscyamine, Hyoscyamus––-” “Stop!”

From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard

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