hyoscine

1. 1.

   an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures

   “transdermal scopolamine is used to treat motion sickness”

   “someone sedated with scopolamine has difficulty lying”

   Synonymsscopolamine

   Broaderalkaloid

Other forms of hyoscine

plural

hyoscines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hyoscine

What does hyoscine mean?

hyoscine means "an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures".

How many syllables are in hyoscine?

hyoscine has 2 syllables: hyo-scine. The stress falls on "hyo".

What is another word for hyoscine?

Close synonyms include scopolamine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hyoscine a common word?

hyoscine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.