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scopolamine ‎(countable and uncountable, plural scopolamines)

(pharmacology) A tropane alkaloid obtained from plants of the nightshade family, used as a sedative, to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils for ophthalmic examination.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 176:
  I had been shot full of dope to keep me quiet. Perhaps scopolamine too, to make me talk.

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