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What (who) is hyoscine - definition

CHEMICAL COMPOUND
Transderm scop; Scopalamine; Burundanga; Columbian Devil's Breath; Scopolamia; Scolopamine; Devil's Breath; Scolpamine; Colombian Devil's Breath; Scopolomine; Scopoderm; ATC code A04AD01; ATCvet code QA04AD01; ATC code N05CM05; ATCvet code QN05CM05; ATC code S01FA02; ATCvet code QS01FA02; Transderm Scop; Atrochin; Atroquin; Atroscine Hydrobromide; Beldavrin; Epoxytropine Tropate; Euscopol; Hydroscine Hydrobromide; Hyocine F Hydrobromide; Hyosceine; Hyoscine Bromide; Hyoscine Hydrobromide; Hyoscyine Hydrobromide; Hyosol; Hysco; Isopto Hyoscine; Isoscopil; Kwells; L-Hyoscine Hydrobromide; L-Scopolamine; Methscopolamine Bromide; Scopamin; Scopine Tropate; Scopoderm-Tts; Scopolaminhydrobromid; Scopolaminium Bromide; Scopolammonium Bromide; Scopos; Skopolamin; Tranaxine; Transcop; Transderm-Scop; Transderm-V; Triptone; Hyoscine; Scopolamine hydrobromide; Hyoscine hydrobromide; Biosynthesis of scopolamine
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  • Biochemistry of tropane class compounds. [[Hyoscyamine]] and scopolamine are present and labeled.

hyoscine         
['h???si:n]
¦ noun Chemistry a poisonous plant alkaloid used as an anti-emetic in motion sickness and as a preoperative medication for examination of the eye.
Origin
C19: from mod. L. hyoscyamus (see hyoscyamine).
Hyoscine         
·noun An alkaloid found with hyoscyamine (with which it is also isomeric) in henbane, and extracted as a white, amorphous, semisolid substance.
scopolamine         
[sk?(?)'p?l?mi:n]
¦ noun another term for hyoscine.
Origin
C19: from Scopolia (genus name) + amine.

Wikipedia

Scopolamine

Scopolamine, also known as hyoscine, or Devil's Breath, is a natural or synthetically produced tropane alkaloid and anticholinergic drug that is used as a medication to treat motion sickness and postoperative nausea and vomiting. It is also sometimes used before surgery to decrease saliva. When used by injection, effects begin after about 20 minutes and last for up to 8 hours. It may also be used orally and as a transdermal patch since it has been long known to have transdermal bioavailability.

Scopolamine is in the antimuscarinic family of drugs and works by blocking some of the effects of acetylcholine within the nervous system. Scopolamine was first written about in 1881 and started to be used for anesthesia around 1900. Scopolamine is also the main active component produced by certain plants of the nightshade family, which historically have been used as psychoactive drugs (known as deliriants) due to their antimuscarinic-induced hallucinogenic effects in higher doses. In these contexts, its mind-altering effects have been utilized for recreational, criminal and occult purposes. The name "scopolamine" is derived from one type of nightshade known as Scopolia, while the name "hyoscine" is derived from another type known as Hyoscyamus niger. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.

Examples of use of hyoscine
1. "Hyoscine was also commonly used in obstetrics back then.
2. Buscopan® IBS Relief tablets contain hyoscine butylbromide 10mg, which has natural origins derived from the duboisia plant.
3. A fortnight before she vanished, Crippen had bought five grains of hyoscine, a highly toxic sedative used to calm psychiatric patients, but lethal in large doses.
4. But he had used too much hyoscine, making his wife wild and aggressive, and so he had shot her, then chopped her up and buried her to dispose of the evidence.
5. As hyoscine significantly slows down the digestive system, he says, Cora‘s stomach would still have been full if she had died in the small hours after a dinner party.