'Hyoscine' definitions:
Definition of 'hyoscine'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: scopolamine, hyoscine]
Definition of 'Hyoscine'
From: GCIDE
- Hyoscine \Hy*os"cine\, n. [See Hyoscyamus.] (Chem.) An alkaloid found with hyoscyamine (with which it is also isomeric) in henbane, and extracted as a white, amorphous, semisolid substance. [1913 Webster]