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Definition: Scopolamine |
ScopolamineNoun1. An alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures; "transdermal scopolamine is used to treat motion sickness"; "someone sedated with scopolamine has difficulty lying". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | An alkaloid from Solanaceae, especially Datura metel L. and Scopola carniolica. Scopolamine and its quaternary derivatives act as antimuscarinics like atropine, but may have more central nervous system effects. Among the many uses are as an anesthetic premedication, in urinary incontinence, in motion sickness, as an antispasmodic, and as a mydriatic and cycloplegic. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is structurally similar to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and acts by blocking the muscarinic acetylcholine receptors; it is thus classified as an anticholinergic.
In medicine, it it usually used in the form scopolamine hydrobromide. It can be used as a depressant of the central nervous system, though it can cause delirium in the presence of pain, mydriasis (pupillary dilation), and cycloplegia (paralysis of the eye muscles). When combined with morphine, it produces a tranquilized state known as twilight sleep and amnesia. Although originally used in obstetrics it is now considered dangerous.
It is used in ophthalmy to deliberately cause cycloplegia and mydriasis so that certain diagnostic procedures may be performed. It is also used in the treatment of iridocyclitis.
It is also an antiemetic (prevents vomiting), antivertigo (prevents dizziness), and antispasmodic (prevents convulsions). It can be used as a pre-anesthetic sedation, as an antiarrhythmic (preventing irregular heartbeat) during anesthesia, and for the prevention of motion sickness.
The drug is highly toxic and has to be used in minute doses. An overdose can cause delirium, delusions, paralysis, stupor and death.
The use of scopolamine as a truth drug was investigated by various intelligence agencies, including the CIA, during the 50s. It was found that, due to the hallucinogenic side effects of the drug, the truth was prone to distortion, and the project was subsequently abandoned.
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Synonym: ScopolamineSynonym: hyoscine (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Scopolamine |
| English words defined with "scopolamine": black henbane ♦ henbane, hyoscine, Hyoscyamus niger ♦ Scopolia carniolica, stinking nightshade ♦ twilight sleep. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scopolamine": Butylscopolammonium Bromide ♦ Scopolamine Derivatives. (references) |
| "Scopolamine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scopolamine" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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Expression using "scopolamine": Scopolamine Derivatives. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "scopolamine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skopolamin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | scopolamine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | scopolamine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Skopolamin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκοπολαμίνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scopolamina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opolaminescay escopolamina. (various references) escopolamina. (various references) skopolamin. (various references) ยาสงบประสาท. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scopolamine": scopolamines. (additional references) | |
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"Scopolamine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scopalamine. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scopolamine" (pronounced skô"pulumē'n or skō"pulumē'n) |
| 5 | -l u m ē' n | melamine. |
| 4 | -u m ē' n | amphetamine, histamine. |
| 3 | -m ē' n | bromine. |
| 5 | -l u m ē' n | melamine. |
| 4 | -u m ē' n | amphetamine, histamine. |
| 3 | -m ē' n | bromine. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-m-n-o-o-p-s" | |
-2 letters: campesino, companies, complains, complines, manciples, moonscape, palominos, picomoles, policeman, polonaise, semicolon. | |
-3 letters: alnicoes, camisole, campions, canopies, capelins, colonies, colonise, compiles, complain, complies, compline, complins, eclosion, empoison, episomal, impanels, ipomoeas, laconism, laminose, lampions, lampoons, limacons, liposome, manciple, maniples, melanics, meniscal, misplace, monocles, moonsail, neoplasm, oilcamps, oinomels, opalines, palomino, panicles, pelicans, pemicans, picomole, pinocles, pleonasm, polemics, scolioma, semolina, simoleon. | |
-4 letters: acinose, alnicos, alpines, amnesic, anisole, anomies, anosmic, apnoeic, camions, campion, capelin, caplins, celosia, cinemas, cineols, clonism, coeloms, colones, compels, compile, complin, compone, compose, console, coolies, copalms, encamps, enclasp, encomia, epinaos, epsilon, escalop, espanol, impales, impanel, impones, inclasp, inclose, incomes, inlaces, inscape, ipomoea, lampion, lampoon, limacon, lipomas, locoism, lomeins, loonies, malices, malines, malison, maniocs, maniple, masonic, melanic, menials, mesonic, misplan, monocle, noisome, oilcamp, oilcans, oinomel, oomiacs, opaline, opsonic, panicle, pelican, pemican, pencils, peonism, pineals, pinocle, pinoles, plaices, plasmic, plasmin, plasmon, plenism, plosion, pocosin, polemic, polices, pomaces, pomelos, psalmic, sanicle, scaleni, seminal, senopia, spancel, spaniel, special, splenia, splenic. | |
-5 letters: aeonic, aliens, alines, alnico, aloins, alpine, amices, amines, amnios, amoles, anemic, animes, anoles, anomic, anomie, apices, apneic, aslope, camels, cameos, camion, camise, campos, canoes, caplin, capons, casein, casino, celoms, cinema, cineol, claims, clamps, cleans, climes, clines, clomps, clones, coelom, colies, colins, colone, coloni, colons, comose, compel, compos, conies, consol, coolie, copalm, copals, copens, copies, cosine, elains, eloins, emails, encamp, enolic, eolian, eonism, epical, espial, iceman, icones, impale, impels, impone, impose, incase, income, inlace, inseam, insole, lances, lanose, lapins, lemans, lemons, lesion, lianes, limans, limens, limpas, linacs, lipase, lipoma, locoes, lomein, looies, loosen, macles, macons, mailes, malice, maline, manics, manioc, maples, mascon, melons, menial, mensal, mescal, mesial, mesian, milpas, minces, mispen, molies, moline, monies, moolas, mosaic, nicols, nopals, oceans, oilcan, oilman, oilmen, oleins, oomiac, opines, oscine, osmole, paeons, panels, panics, pecans, pencil, penial, pensil, pianos, pilose, pineal, pinole, places, plaice, plains, planes, plicae, poison, poleis, police, polies, polios, pomace, pomelo, ponces, ponies, saline, salmon, saloon, saloop, samiel, sample, scampi, semina, silane, simnel, simoon, simple, social, socman, socmen, solace, solano, solemn, solion, spicae, spinal, spinel, splice, spline. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-m-n-o-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: scopolamines. | |
+2 letters: campanologies, compellations, complexations, compressional. | |
+3 letters: compassionless, compensational, contemplations, indecomposable, noncompliances, recompilations. | |
+4 letters: chlorpromazines, compassionately, overcompliances, uncompromisable. | |
+5 letters: chloramphenicols, complementations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 6F 70 6F 6C 61 6D 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. --- .--. --- .-.. .- -- .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101111 01110000 01101111 01101100 01100001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c o p o l a m i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 006F 0070 006F 006C 0061 006D 0069 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369818281786779758071 |
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