Difference between Hyoscine and Scopolamine

What is the difference between Hyoscine and Scopolamine?

Hyoscine as a noun is scopolamine. while Scopolamine as a noun is 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.

Hyoscine

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Scopolamine.

Scopolamine

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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.

We hope you now know whether to use Hyoscine or Scopolamine in your sentence.

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