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Medicine

atropine

pupil-dilating belladonna drug

Today this word meansA drug that dilates the pupils and raises the heart rate, obtained from belladonna.

From Atropos, "the unturnable," the third Fate — the one who cuts the thread of life.

The source plant's scientific name is Atropa belladonna, given because its toxin is deadly.

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