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- noun organic chemistry The
brominated alcohol 2,2,2-tribromoethanol that is used as ananaesthetic for small animals
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Pages smeared with blood might have passed before her, and she might have dreamed -- for she wuz _very_ delerious -- she might have dreamed of the time when our statesmen and lawgivers would pause awhile from their hard task of punishin 'crime, and bend their energies upon avertin' it --
Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881
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Prior to the experiment, mice were anesthetized with 0.015 ml/g avertin by i.p. injection. 1 mg/ml of FITC-peptide in 250 µl PBS was injected by tail vein injection into mice bearing tumors 150 mm
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Katarina Hajdin et al. 2010
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Virus was harvested by three times freezing and thawing as described before Mice were anesthetized using either ketamine (87 mg / kg body weight) and xylazine (13 mg / kg body weight) or avertin (275 mg / kg body weight).
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