NOUN
- a drug that reduces muscle contractility by blocking the transmission of nerve impulses or by decreasing the excitability of the motor end plate or by other actions
How To Use muscle relaxant In A Sentence
- Drugs found in Haim's system included the cough-suppressant dextromethorphan; the antihistamine diphenhydramine; carisoprodol, a prescription muscle relaxant; the tranquilizers diazepam and meprobamate, which are found in Valium and other medications; and the antidepressants fluoxetine and olanzapine. Corey Haim Cause Of Death: Pneumonia Complications, NOT Drugs
- It had extraordinary calming and muscle relaxant effects in animals.
- Other innovative drugs whose development he oversaw included atracurium, a muscle relaxant, and lamotrigine, an epilepsy drug.
- Forensic analysis of skeletal muscle relaxants such as tubocurarine and gallamine has been hampered by the fact that these quaternary ammonium compounds are not readily extractable from the biological matrix.
- There is no evidence that muscle relaxants or opioids are more effective than these medications, although they may be useful in certain cases.
- Among them are baclofen, a common muscle relaxant that enhances GABA, and N-acetylcysteine, used to treat Tylenol overdoses, which inhibits glutamate. New Hope For Addicts?
- The Smith family claims the nurse administered Pancuronium, a muscle relaxant, instead of the antacid Pepcid. Richard Smith, 79-Year-Old Miami Man, Dies After Accidentally Receiving Execution Drug
- He also gave me prescriptions for industrial-strength naproxen, indomethacin, and another muscle relaxant, tizanidine, to try as new rescue meds. Chocolate & Vicodin
- In the review by Trollor and Sachdev, a muscle relaxant was used in 50% of the cases with succinylcholine being the most common.
- I used no anesthetic other than the curare,which was mostly a muscle relaxant. The Strange Death of Dr. Love
