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Medical Term:

tropane

Pronunciation: trō′pān

Definition:

  1. A bicyclic hydrocarbon, the fundamental structure of tropine, atropine, and other physiologically active substances.
  2. In plural form, a class of alkaloids containing the tropane (1) structure.

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Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.

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