atropine

• atropia (dated)

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tɹə.piːn/, /ˈa.tɹəp.ɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.tɹəˌpin/

atropine (countable and uncountable, plural atropines)

1. (toxicology, pharmacology) An alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other sources, such as the seeds of the thorn-apple. 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).

• apertion, apritone, entropia, operatin'

• IPA^(key): /a.tʁɔ.pin/

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atropine f (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) atropine

• “atropine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

atropine f

1. plural of atropina

• Partenio, entropia, operanti, paretoni, partenio, paterino, patinerò, pianterò, prenotai, pritaneo, proteina, ripetano