Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bitter white powder, C9H18N2O4, used as a tranquilizer, muscle relaxant, and anticonvulsant.
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- noun pharmacy A
carbamate derivative used as ananxiolytic drug .
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- noun a sedative and tranquilizer (trade name Miltown and Equanil and Meprin) used to treat muscle tension and anxiety
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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 2010
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Drugs for tension, stress, alcohol withdrawal and depression that contain diazepan or meprobamate can also cause problems with lack of feeling cold.
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More recent medications—Beller-gal-S, hydroxyzine (an antihistamine with sedative properties), tranquilizers like reserpine and meprobamate, and (in Russia) bromides combined with calcium chloride—have targeted secondary symptoms of stuttering, like anxiety and stress.
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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More recent medications—Beller-gal-S, hydroxyzine (an antihistamine with sedative properties), tranquilizers like reserpine and meprobamate, and (in Russia) bromides combined with calcium chloride—have targeted secondary symptoms of stuttering, like anxiety and stress.
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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Other than meprobamate, the first group is almost never used.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Other nonbarbiturate sedatives-hypnotics include (1) glycol or glycerol derivatives (e.g., meprobamate) and (2) diphenylmethane derivatives (e.g., diphenhydramine, hydroxyzine).
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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At dinner, seven more-why, thought Ryeland through his comfortable haze of meprobamate, that left only three in the entire cottage who had not been called for some donation that day, and Ryeland was one of them.
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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In a few cases in which I tried tranquilizing pills of the meprobamate type there was some slight improvement.
Disturbing Sun 1941
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Pharmacies are empty although meprobamate is easy to obtain. doctors are unavailable because castro sends them all overseas as payment for goods or communist propaganda.
Gay/Lesbian Forum 2010
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Gay/Lesbian Forum 2010
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