Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
scopolamine

scopolamine

5 9.7
A medicine that prevents nausea and motion sickness and makes pupils larger during eye exams
  • noun
  • /skəˈpɒləˌmiːn/
  • Specialized
: escopolamina
  • There are drugs that can also make you open to suggestion, like scopolamine, which is sometimes taken as a party drug and is frequently used to treat motion sickness.
  • scopolamine patches
  • scopolamine, a drug

So people will get drugged with scopolamine and they will be walking around.

Examples

  • Already, the new dose of scopolamine was having the desired effect.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Put her to bed and have Dr. Stephens give her an injection of scopolamine.

    Shock (1946)

  • However, most passengers who tried the scopolamine patches found them to be very effective.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Suppose they don't have any scopolamine?

    The Guns of Navarone (1961)

  • Is the scopolamine ready?

    I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)

  • Since House's early experiments with scopolamine (69), which led to the misnomer "truth serum," a great deal more has been learned about drug action.

    Blog text (32)

  • In 1921, R. E. House, an obstetrician in Texas, observed in deliveries in which the mother had been given scopolamine that in a certain stage of anesthesia or sedation, she might be talkative and reveal things she would not ordinarily discuss.

    Blog text (32)

  • The doctor prescribed a scopolamine patch to help with her motion sickness during the flight.

  • Many patients receive scopolamine as a sedative before undergoing eye surgery.

  • The effects of scopolamine can help prevent nausea in chemotherapy patients.

Synonyms

hyoscine
vsscopolamine
  • UK
1 9.9

A medicine that stops nausea, prevents motion sickness, and makes pupils larger for eye tests

has identical therapeutic uses but is a different name for the same drug

Surface Forms

scopolamine singular
scopolamines plural

Morphology

scopolamine = Scopolia (opaque) = scopol + amine

The combining element 'scopol-' comes from a plant name and does not convey the drug's effects to learners; '-amine' only signals a chemical class, so the overall meaning is not inferable from the parts.

Etymology

Scopolamine comes from the plant name Scopolia, where the drug was first found, plus the chemical ending -amine, which you also see in medicines like adrenaline. So scopolamine literally means the 'amine from Scopolia', which helps explain why it is a drug originally made from a plant and used in medicine.