Scoline Pharm.
(ˈskəʊliːn)
Also scoline.
[f. succinylcholine.]
A proprietary name for succinylcholine.
| 1952 Trade Marks Jrnl. 30 Jan. 89/2 Scoline... Pharmaceutical preparations and substances. Allen & Hanburys Ltd, Three Colts Lane, Bethnal Green, London, E.2; wholesale Chemists and Druggists. 1952 Lancet 21 June 1226/2 Succinylcholine chloride (‘Scoline’) was given intravenously. 1965 J. Pollitt Depression & its Treatment iv. 50 A modern relaxant such as succeryl choline (Scoline) is given intravenously. 1965 Daily Express 14 Oct. 5/7 The two-inch long ampoules of scoline and of distilled water..were kept together in a plastic bowl in a refrigerator. 1976 Smythies & Corbett Psychiatry xvii. 291 American psychologists treated some criminals in jail by asking them to imagine themselves reliving the circumstances of their criminal activities and then giving an injection of scoline. |