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What is an atropine?

What is an atropine? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (pharmacology) An alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other sources. 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).
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These plants have in common high concentrations of hyoscyamine, atropine, and scopolamine.
Causative medications are droperidol, diphenhydramine, meperidine, promethazine, atropine, and scopolamine.
The study was terminated with the administration of atropine and neostigmine to reverse muscle paralysis.
The battlefield was littered with atropine injectors used by panicky Iranian troops as an antidote against Iraqi nerve gas attacks.
The most common ingredients prescribed were iodides, organic nitrites, stramonium, belladonna, atropine, hyoscyamus, tobacco smoke, and menthol.
To reverse the muscle relaxation, neostigmine and atropine were used at the end of surgery.

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