"Belladonna" is a word in ENGLISH
A species of Amaryllis (A. belladonna); the belladonna
lily.
An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with
reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant
and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as
powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the
alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.
Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective time is not a perfect, structureless observer, but a complex, multilayered, multifaceted psyche. Different levels of our consciousness may experience time in quite different ways. This is evidently the case in terms of response time. You have probably had the slightly unnerving experience of jumping at the sound of a telephone a moment or two before you actually hear it ring. The shrill noise induces a reflex response through the nervous system much faster than the time it takes to create the conscious experience of the sound.It is fashionable to attribute certain qualities, such as speech ability, to the left side of the brain, whereas others, such as musical appreciation, belong to processes occurring on the right side. But why should both hemispheres experience a common time? And why should the subconscious use the same mental clock as the conscious?
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A genus of the same family, including the Belladonna lily.
Read the complete definitionA poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. …
Read the complete definitionA condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.
Read the complete definitionThe deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
Read the complete definitionA poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or mental aberration (as belladonna).
Read the complete definitionThe deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities.
Read the complete definitionA plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used …
Read the complete definitionAn alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids …
Read the complete definitionA mydriatic medicine or agent, as belladonna.
Read the complete definitionA drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, …
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