Meanings
plural hyoscines
- countableuncountablechemistryAn oily alakoid liquid, formerly used as a sedative; scopolamine.First known use 19th c.
I was so excited I forgot about the hyoscine pills and only remembered to take them as we were stepping up the mobile staircase onto the aircraft.
2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 2421 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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