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atropine

/ˈa.tɹə.piːn/US/ˈæ.tɹəˌpin/

atropine noun: 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).

Noun

atropine (countable and uncountable, plural atropines)

  1. 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).

atropine meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Arabic and Malay

atropine in Tamil

அத்திரோபீன், நச்சுக்கார வகை

atropine in Bengali

অ্যাট্রোপিন

atropine in Arabic

alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade
أَتْرُوبِن ʔatrūbin

atropine in Malay

alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade
atropina
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atropine in Indonesian
atropina

Examples of atropine in a sentence

  • Similar to parasympathetically mediated HR-slowing, Fingolimod-related HR-slowing is reversed by atropine or mitigated by alpha 1-receptor-agonists.
  • Inhibition by a nonageable phosphinate produces cholinergic toxicity, treatable with atropine and 2-PAM.
  • (b) Mydriatrics are those which dilate the pupil e.g., atropine and adrenaline.

All 10 example sentences with atropine

Forms of atropine

pluralatropines
alternative form (dated)atropia

Origin of atropine

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

Words formed from atropine

Questions about atropine

What does atropine mean?
Atropine means 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).
What is atropine in Tamil?
Atropine in Tamil is அத்திரோபீன், நச்சுக்கார வகை. See Atropine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is atropine?
Atropine is a noun.
How do you pronounce atropine?
Atropine is pronounced /ˈa.tɹə.piːn/ (UK).
What is the plural of atropine?
The plural of atropine is atropines.

Words near atropine in the dictionary

  1. atrophy
  2. atrophying
  3. atropia
  4. atropias
  5. atropin
  6. atropine
  7. atropines
  8. atropinic
  9. atropinise
  10. atropinism
  11. atropinization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: atropine (page history and authors); atropine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); atropine (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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