Crossword-Solution: HYOSCYAMINE
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| Hyoscyamine | n. | An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc. |
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| used to treat excess motility of the gastrointestinal tract | 1 answer |
| ALKALOID used with morphia to produce partial anaesthesia | 2 answers |
| isomer of atropine | 2 answers |
| scopolamine | 3 answers |
| alkaloid | 18 answers |
| Sedative | 47 answers |
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The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
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Sentences with HYOSCYAMINE (5)
Yes, there was stramonium in those cigarettes--datura stramonium--perhaps a trace of hyoscyamine." I tried to look wise, but all I could think of was that, whatever his science showed me now, my instinct had been enough to prompt me not to smoke those cigarettes, though, of course, only Kennedy's science could tell what it was that caused that instinctive aversion.
According to the early researches we could not discover any of these relationships which only become evident when we come to study the new discoveries which have been made in connection with the tropines, to which class belong both duboisine and hyoscyamine, which, although differing from atropine, are equally mydriatic in their action.
The "heavy daturine," of which only a small quantity is obtainable, is far from being a body of definite composition, that is to say, it is a mixture of atropine and hyoscyamine.
These facts prove the presence of atropine in datura; but while Planta and Schmidt assert that only this alkaloid is found in the plant, I have proved that the proportion of atropine in it is but small, while its richness in hyoscyamine is great.
According to this view hyoscyamine ought to be the hyoscinate of hyoscine, or at any rate an isomer of this body.