To avert is to turn away or to prevent. You might avert your gaze or avert a disaster â either way, you are avoiding something. Averting has that sense of deflecting, turning away, or preventing something (usually bad) from happening.
A Stacy Wiegman, PharmD , Pharmacy, answered. Hyoscyamine sulfate is an antispasmodic medication that helps to control the symptoms of various disorders of the intestines, stomach, and urinary tract. Hyoscyamine sulfate provides relief from colic, cramps, and painful muscle contractions by decreasing stomach fluid secretion and decreasing stomach and intestinal motion.
It is the levorotary isomer of atropine (third of the three major nightshade alkaloids) and thus sometimes known as levo-atropine. Hyoscyamine should not be confused with hyoscine, an older alternate name for the related nightshade-derived anticholinergic scopolamine for which it is the precursor.