Tranquillizer - English meaning

noun

Any of a class of sedative and sleep-inducing drugs derived from barbituric acid.

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Drugs for which subjects were tested included cocaine, opiates, marijuana, phencyclidine, benzodiaz…

noun

A strong medicine that makes people calm or helps them sleep

adjective

(of a drug) having a sedative effect.

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It has developed a range of weapons capable of delivering calmative chemicals, including specialize…

noun

A calmative drug.

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This is just what is depicted in the various scenarios envisioned by military planners laying out a…

noun

A tranquillizer of the benzodiazepine group, used chiefly to treat anxiety and alcoholism.

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Long-acting benzodiazepines such as chlordiazepoxide and diazepam are preferred because they are th…

noun

A synthetic drug used as a tranquillizer, sedative, and anti-emetic. it is a phenothiazine derivative.

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Treatment of delirium requires use of neuroleptic drugs, such as haloperidol and chlorpromazine, no…

adjective

(chiefly of a drug) reducing functional or nervous activity.

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It is also necessary to exclude reversible causes of failure of brain function, including depressan…

noun

A depressant drug.

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Phenothiazines, tricyclic antidepressants, and cns depressants may potentiate the therapeutic and a…

noun

A substance that causes you to feel sad or calm

noun

A tranquillizing muscle-relaxant drug used chiefly to relieve anxiety.

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Tranquilising drugs such as diazepam or temazepam are not suitable for treating stress because they…

noun

A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.

Usage examples:

A new drug aimed at sufferers from parkinson's disease

verb

Administer a drug to (someone) in order to induce stupor or insensibility.

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They were drugged to keep them quiet

verb

A substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic

noun

A bitter-tasting drug used, especially before the 1970s, as a mild tranquillizer.

noun

A drug or other substance that affects mood or behaviour and is consumed for non-medical purposes, especially one sold illegally.

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Cultivation of a plant used to make a popular local narcotic

adjective

Relating to or denoting narcotics or illegal drugs.

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Consumption of narcotic substances

noun

A type of drug that causes sleep and that is used medically to reduce the strength of pain, and that in some forms is also used illegally

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Narcotic painkillers

adjective

(of a drug) tending to reduce nervous tension by depressing nerve functions.

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A number of the older tricyclic antidepressants, typical neuroleptic medications and, more recently…

noun

A neuroleptic drug; a major tranquillizer.

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The drugs used for schizophrenia are antipsychotics or neuroleptics (major tranquillizers).

adjective

Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.

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The use of opiate drugs

noun

A drug derived from or related to opium.

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The opiates are known to have natural counterparts called endorphins

verb

Dull the senses of (someone) with or as if with opium.

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He grew old and soft, opiating himself into a dreaming bliss

abbreviation

Page.

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See p 784

symbol

(in units of measurement) pico- (10−12).

Usage examples:

A 220 pf capacitor

noun

The sixteenth letter of the alphabet.

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Let’s have an ‘s’ for speedy, and a ‘p’ for polly, intertwined on the top of the cake, in red frost…

adjective

Promoting calm or inducing sleep.

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The seeds have a sedative effect

noun

A drug taken for its calming or sleep-inducing effect.

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She won't let them give her sedatives because of the baby

adjective

Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep.

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The motion of the train had a somewhat soporific effect

noun

A drug or other substance that induces drowsiness or sleep.

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The meal was light - perhaps eggs and a posset (hot milk fortified with sugar, spices, eggs, and wi…

adjective

Causing sleep or making a person want to sleep

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The soporific effect of the heat

noun

A synthetic compound derived from phenothiazine, used as a tranquillizer, chiefly in the treatment of mental illness.

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The phenothiazine associated with most deaths was not thioridazine but chlorpromazine.