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Drug used to treat asthma
Answer for the clue "Drug used to treat asthma ", 9 letters:
ephedrine
Alternative clues for the word ephedrine
- Letter by German poet accepting doctor's asthma treatment
- White odorless powdered or crystalline alkaloid from plants of the genus Ephedra (especially Ephedra sinica) or made synthetically
- Medicine used to treat hypotension
- Used as a bronchodilator to treat bronchitis and asthma
- Common decongestant ingredient
- Hay fever medicine
Word definitions for ephedrine in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1889, named 1887 by Japanese organic chemist Nagai Nagayoshi (1844-1929), from the plant ephedra , from which it was first extracted, + chemical suffix -ine (2).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. white odorless powdered or crystalline alkaloid from plants of the genus Ephedra (especially Ephedra sinica) or made synthetically; used as a bronchodilator to treat bronchitis and asthma
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) An alkaloid, found in some species of ''Ephedra'' shrubs (or prepared synthetically). 2 (context countable English) A medication whose active ingredient is ephedrine, used as a sympathomimetic drug.
Usage examples of ephedrine.
Link was up early making deliveries across the San Bernardino Valley, carting red phosphorus, ephedrine, and other precursors to warehouse laboratories and aluminum sheds out in the desert.
Like, say, take our friendly smuggler who usually drives a load of ephedrine pills, or kitchen cabinets, or flush toilets.
With the first look of apprehension and the first wheeze, she pounced with the ephedrine or the isoprenaline, summoned one of the professors, and had the sufferer nicely propped up in a chair by the time someone arrived, ready to be talked out of further wheezes, and if that were not possible, ready for whatever treatment was ordered.
Jeffrey yelled as he got ephedrine from the drawer and prepared it for injection.
Meth is speed and it is made by cooking asthma medicine called ephedrine, formaldehyde, sometimes gas or fertilizer, and baking powder.
Mexican factories would ship a ton of diet pills, or even truckloads of the ephedrine itself, if he requested it.
In a pinch, in place of ephedrine Bennie could also use phenylalanine, an amino acid sold wholesale in health-food stores at two hundred bucks for forty pounds.
Illustrative ammo compounds which can be reacted are ammonia, hydrazine, primary amines such as glycine, ethanolamine, diglycylglycine, norephedrine, aminopropanol, butanolamine, diethylamine, ephedrine, and the like.
Illustrative ammo compounds which can be reacted are ammonia, hydrazine, primary amines such as glycine, ethanolamine, diglycylglycine, norephedrine, aminopropanol, butanolamine, diethylamine, ephedrine, and the like.
The drink manages to take the edge off my raging adrenaline buzz and goes down nicely after the three double espressos, two beers, three cranberry juices, eight aspirins, two ephedrine drinks, and a hastily gobbled hunk of merguez, which I managed to squeeze into a heel of bread before swallowing in two bites.