Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An anticholinergic drug derived from tropine, C16H21NO3, used in its bromide form to dilate the pupil of the eye and in combination with hydrocodone to prevent overdosage of that drug.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An alkaloid (C16H21NO3) crystallizing in colorless prisms which are deliquescent, but difficultly soluble in water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry An
anticholinergic medication thatinhibits muscarinic acetylcholine receptors and thus theparasympathetic nervous system .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[hom(o)– + atropine.]
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homo- + atropine
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Ladenburg has also formed a series of artificial alkaloids, called _tropeines_, by uniting the base tropine with different organic acids, as in the case of the compound of mandelic acid and tropine, known as _homatropine_, an alkaloid of action similar to atropine, but possessing some decided advantages in its use.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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(, 0.4 mM, 28% inhibition [1]) [1] Hg2+ (, 0.4 mM, 96% inhibition [1]) [1] l-homatropine
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