Definitions
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- noun pharmacology A fast-acting
opioid analgesic drug used in the treatment of severepain .
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Examples
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It is understood that Jackson was being injected twice a day with the morphine-related painkiller Demerol, which in the UK is called pethidine and usually given to women in childbirth.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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We offer them strong painkilling drugs such as pethidine or diamorphine - which is a form of heroin.
Right Wing News 2009
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Muirhead ascribes the change to the 1970s battle between "medicalised" birth and there's an interesting counterpoint, culturally, here in Betty's birth scene in Mad Men, a kind of dreamscape 60s horror show where she's so dosed up to the eyeballs on pethidine that all she can perceive is a load of masked men with huge metal instruments and the feminist drive to reclaim the process of labour.
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Millie also had a baby using donated sperm to artificially inseminate herself with a veggie burger baster as a vegan, she refused to use a turkey baster but despite having planned an all-natural home birth she ended up in hospital, using pethidine, and begging the nurse to call the father to come and hold her hand.
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We sic didn't use pethidine or any other painkillers, natural all the way!
Nagging Doubts juliette 2009
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I remember in one class the teacher discussing various drugs for pain relief (such as pethidine and spinal epidurals) and going on to explain emergency procedures (such as forceps and caesareans).
a better woman Susan Johnson 1999
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I remember in one class the teacher discussing various drugs for pain relief (such as pethidine and spinal epidurals) and going on to explain emergency procedures (such as forceps and caesareans).
a better woman Susan Johnson 1999
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I remember in one class the teacher discussing various drugs for pain relief (such as pethidine and spinal epidurals) and going on to explain emergency procedures (such as forceps and caesareans).
a better woman Susan Johnson 1999
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Epidural block or parenteral pethidine as analgesic in labour; a randomised study concerning progress in labour and instrumental deliveries.
7. REFERENCES 1996
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A comparison of epidural blockade and intramuscular pethidine.
7. REFERENCES 1996
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