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hyoscines

hyoscines is the plural of hyoscine.

Meaning of hyoscine

Noun

hyoscine (countable and uncountable, plural hyoscines)

  1. An oily alakoid liquid, formerly used as a sedative; scopolamine.
    • To give such a patient an injection of hyoscine […] is, as Dr. Stoddart points out, “a refined substitute for hitting him on the head with a club.”1921, Montagu Lomax, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor, Allen & Unwin, page 96

Questions about hyoscines

What is hyoscines the plural of?
Hyoscines is the plural of hyoscine.

Words near hyoscines in the dictionary

  1. hyoplastrons
  2. hyopsodontid
  3. hyopsodontids
  4. hyosciamine
  5. hyoscine
  6. hyoscines
  7. hyoscyami
  8. hyoscyamin
  9. hyoscyamine
  10. hyoscyamines
  11. hyoscyamus

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