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Scopolamine vs Atropine - What's the difference?

scopolamine | atropine |

As nouns the difference between scopolamine and atropine

is that scopolamine is (pharmaceutical drug) a tropane alkaloid obtained from plants of the nightshade family, used as a sedative, to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils for ophthalmic examination while atropine is (poison|pharmaceutical drug) 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 (eg in surgery to relax muscles, in dentistry to dry the mouth, in ophthalmology to dilate the pupils).

scopolamine

English

Noun

  • (pharmaceutical drug) A tropane alkaloid obtained from plants of the nightshade family, used as a sedative, to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils for ophthalmic examination.
  • * 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 176:
    • I had been shot full of dope to keep me quiet. Perhaps scopolamine too, to make me talk.
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    atropine

    English

    (wikipedia atropine)

    Noun

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  • (poison, pharmaceutical drug) 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).