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hyoscyamin

hyoscyamin is the alternative form of hyoscyamine.

Meaning of hyoscyamine

Noun

hyoscyamine (uncountable)

  1. A poisonous alkaloid present in henbane that is the stereoisomer of atropine, with similar properties to hyoscine, and used medicinally to treat abdominal pain and similar conditions.
    • If only Creake was going to poison his wife with hyoscyamine and bury her, instead of blowing her up with a dynamite cartridge and claiming that it came in among the coal.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

Questions about hyoscyamin

What is hyoscyamin the alternative form of?
Hyoscyamin is the alternative form of hyoscyamine.

Words near hyoscyamin in the dictionary

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

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