What is "relaxant"

Usage examples of "relaxant".

Once inside, we injected both Mizz Angola and Mizz Galilei with a relaxant.

Suburban Hospital, with terrible abdominal pains of apparently psychogenic origin, not responding to muscle relaxants or tranquilizers, while a doctor and two aides watched in helpless horror as his own muscles cracked his pelvic girdle into sharp knives of bone, and his child was born without pain four thousand miles away.

The ER docs among you might make a more experienced guess and assume that it was done with a paralyzing relaxant like pancuronium bromide, curate, or succinylcholine.

The docs stretched me out, hit me with electrostim and ice for the soft tissue damage, adjusted me as best they could, slapped me full of muscle relaxants and reconstructor nanos and told me to take it easy.

Studies have found that music therapy is effective as a relaxant and anxiety reducer for infants and children and that certain music increases the ability to focus and learn.

Certainly molds and their antibacterial effects seem more common than microvessel relaxants.

Perhaps it was Forane, a strong muscle relaxant that was used prior to anesthesia.

Whatever drug they had given her was compounded with a muscle relaxant, for she felt exceedingly limp.

From his inability to move, Adam vaguely supposed that one of the drugs being given him must be a deep muscle relaxant of some kind - perhaps even one of the curariform substances that paralyzed voluntary movement and, in higher doses, interfered with breathing - for at some point, Mallory had intubated him.

It's a muscle relaxant, and doctors use it to bring a patient out of convulsions-usually when somebody's having an epileptic seizure, but I guess there are some other things that cause convulsions as well.

This was strange because Russia, Eastern Europe, and China had been growing and ingesting cannabis as a medical drug, relaxant and work tonic for hundreds and even thousands of years, with no thought of marijuana laws.

Satisfied she'd reached an appropriate state, he injected the muscle relaxant mivacurium, which he preferred over several others for its rapid spontaneous recovery time.

Aside from addictive morphine, cannabis, whether smoked or applied as an herbal pack or poultice, is also the best muscle relaxant, back spasm medicine and general antispasmodic medication on our planet.

Like the muscle relaxant in the BetalXP (Mark II), it was to prevent self-inflicted injury and possible death.

Old Kleenex, a piece of ancient hard candy, an empty can of Dr Pepper, the bottle of muscle relaxant she'd had prescribed when her shoulder was wrenched while moving boxes, a melted lipstick she'd tried once before giving up all notions of using makeup.