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Definition of Tropin
1. Noun. (biology) any of the tropic hormones; one that is secreted by an endocrine gland and targets another such gland ¹
2. Noun. alternative spelling of tropine ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tropin
1. tropine [n -S] - See also: tropine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tropin
Literary usage of Tropin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"tropin has the formula CH, CH CHj (a) N.CH3 CHOH (6) CH, ... The atropin effect
is absent from tropin itself; but is produced by many of its compounds, ..."
2. The Medical Student's Manual of Chemistry by Rudolph August Witthaus (1902)
"As the total syntheses of atropin and of tropin have not been accomplished, their
structural formulae are not definitely established; but, according to the ..."
3. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"Atropin is fatal to man in small doses, but both the components which are easily
obtained from it hydrolytically, tropin and ..."
4. A Text-book of Legal Medicine and Toxicology by Walter Stanley Haines (1904)
"A tropin is a quite direct derivative of the pyridin type, ... therefore, are
saponifiable into a tropin and a hydroxy acid, the tropin being a tertiary ..."
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