Crossword clues for sedative
sedative
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sedative \Sed"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. s['e]datif.] Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize; specifically (Med.), allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.
Sedative \Sed"a*tive\, n. (Med.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tending to calm or soothe," early 15c., from Medieval Latin sedativus "calming, allaying," from sedat-, past participle stem of sedare, causative of sedere "to sit" (see sedentary). The noun derivative meaning "a sedative drug" is attested from 1785. Hence, "whatever soothes or allays."
Wiktionary
a. calming, soothing, inducing sleep, tranquilize n. An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep.
WordNet
n. a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person [syn: sedative drug, depressant, downer]
adj. tending to soothe or tranquilize; "valium has a tranquilizing effect"; "took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed" [syn: ataractic, ataraxic, tranquilizing, tranquilising]
Wikipedia
A sedative or tranquilliser is a substance that induces sedation by reducing irritability or excitement.
At higher doses it may result in slurred speech, staggering gait, poor judgment, and slow, uncertain reflexes. Doses of sedatives such as benzodiazepines, when used as a hypnotic to induce sleep, tend to be higher than amounts used to relieve anxiety, whereas only low doses are needed to provide a peaceful effect.
Sedatives can be misused to produce an overly-calming effect ( alcohol being the classic and most common sedating drug). In the event of an overdose or if combined with another sedative, many of these drugs can cause unconsciousness (see hypnotic) and even death.
Usage examples of "sedative".
An aerosol version of the sedative will be used initially to stupefy the populations of Istanbul and Ankara.
Its fresh root is bitter, and a milky juice flows from the rind, which is somewhat aperient and slightly sedative, so that this specially suits persons troubled with bilious torpor, and jaundice combined with melancholy.
Nembutal: Nembutal is a short-acting barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects.
Dioscorides and Theophrastus, and was much esteemed by the Romans to be eaten after a debauch of wine, or as a sedative for inducing sleep.
I insisted on looking, and then they hadda give me a sedative with a needle.
Sassinak tried not to think of the children on board, and hoped that Huron had enough sedative packs along.
He looked now at Kes, who seemed to sleep somewhat fitfully under the effects of the sedative.
He prepared a mild sedative - a tincture of blue cohosh and motherwort - and gave it to her to gentle down some of her worse fits of grief.
Either the sedatives had not quite worn off yet, or the cold had numbed his brain.
The cortical part of the root yields a milky saponaceous juice which is very bitter and slightly sedative.
This robotic surgeon, like all others in the known universe, thought I was allergic to sedatives.
The whole plant is sedative and antispasmodic, being of service by its preparations to relieve sleeplessness, nervous headache, and muscular rheumatism.
Its medicinal action is astringent, with a reduced frequency of the pulse, and some gentle sedative effects, so that any tendency to coughing, etc.
So the prescription sedative could have been drawn off in whole or in part, and puromycin injected into the bottle.
Neither have we any faith, in lasting good resulting from prescribing such nerve sedatives as put the nerves to sleep and so, by simply blunting sensibility, delude the patient into the false belief that he is being benefited.