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/bˈɛlɐdˌɒnɐ/
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NOUN
- an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna plant that is used medicinally
- perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine
How To Use belladonna In A Sentence
- Irregular action of the heart in a person falling asleep produces the well-known sensation of suddenly falling through space, and it seems quite possible that the combination of a delirifacient like belladonna with a drug producing irregular action of the heart like aconite might produce the sensation of flying. The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
- Belladonna—a plant that is believed to have anticholinergic activities—gets a "C" rating for its anti-sweat effectiveness from the Natural Standard Research Collaboration, a Cambridge, Mass., scientist-owned group that evaluates natural therapies. Ways to Deal With a Sticky Underarm Situation
- The most common ingredients prescribed were iodides, organic nitrites, stramonium, belladonna, atropine, hyoscyamus, tobacco smoke, and menthol.
- An overdose of belladonna can mimic a complete shutdown of the parasympathetic nervous system. BLINDSIGHTED
- Other names for belladonna include devil's herb and deadly nightshade.
- He returned to the lab and cooked up a brew consisting of some exotic poisons: atropine (a naturally occurring alkaloid of atropia belladonna or deadly nightshade), sparteine (a compound derived from the European shrub Scotch broom, Cytisus scoparius), and pilocarpine hydrochloride (an alkaloid found in the leaves of a South American shrub, Pilocarpus jaborandi). The Very Nutty Professor
- Most contain belladonna or something like it (atropine, hyoscyamine) and often phenobarbital (phenobarbitone). Chapter 31
- Two of the most popular and better known are arnica and belladonna.
- KASSNER, E.W. and COLLINS, E. (1943) Indian belladonna: Some notes on its alkaloid content and on the macroscopical characters and alkaloid content of plants grown at New Barnet (England). Chapter 5
- Royer J.F. "The effects of Belladonna and Ferrum phosphoricum on the chemoluminescence of human poly-morphonuclear neutrophils". Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]