atropine

English

Etymology

Atropa (“genus of deadly nightshade”) +‎ -ine

Pronunciation

• enPR: ă-trō-pēn IPA^(key): /æ-tɹo-pin/

Noun

atropine (plural atropines)

1. (toxicology, pharmacology) An alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other sources. Though overdoses would be fatal it is used as a drug in medicine for its paralytic effects (e.g. in surgery to relax muscles, in dentistry to dry the mouth, in ophthalmology to dilate the pupils).

Derived terms

• atropinism
• atropinization
• methylatropine

Translations

alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade

• Catalan: atropina f
• Esperanto: atropino
• Finnish: atropiini (fi)
• French: atropine (fr) f
• German: Atropin (de) n
• Greek: ατροπίνη (el) f (atropíni)
• Indonesian: atropina
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• Interlingue:
• Italian: atropina (it) f
• Malay: atropina
• Polish: atropina (pl) f
• Portuguese: atropina f
• Romanian: atropină (ro) f
• Russian: атропи́н (ru) m (atropín)
• Spanish: atropina f

Anagrams

• apertion, apritone, entropia, operatin'

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tʁɔ.pin/

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Noun

atropine f (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) atropine

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Italian

Noun

atropine f

1. plural of atropina

Anagrams

• entropia
• operanti
• patinerò
• pianterò
• prenotai
• proteina
• ripetano