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Meanings of depressant in English
Russian
депрессант Portuguese
depressantes do sistema nervoso central Spanish
depresor del snc Catalan
depressores Drug or endogenous compound that lowers neurotransmission levels.
Synonyms
Examples for "downy"
Examples for "downy"
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The blind woman was feeling carefully the downy head of the baby.
2
Seventy-five per cent of the food of the downy woodpecker is insects.
3
Capparis Mitchelii has a downy fruit, and is common in the scrubs.
4
Its plumage is very downy and soft, and it weighs exceedingly light.
5
It was soft and downy, and he gave vent to his satisfaction.
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And, that pathogen could make your day a real downer, bringing diarrhea.
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Okay, I have to admit, getting caught inside would be a downer.
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This crowd were experts, facial expressions like poker players running downer programs.
4
Killing a Goliath Top One Hundred would be a serious career downer.
5
That's no doubt realistic but it does make the movie one long downer.
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He had given her a tranquilizer and sent her to her berth.
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The drug had been called thalidomide, and it had been a tranquilizer.
3
Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun.
4
Cocktails were poured, and the girls slipped a tranquilizer into his drink.
5
If necessary, it could also administer a heavy-duty tranquilizer directly into my bloodstream.
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The sedative drug caused a worldwide tragedy, after it was prescribed to pregnant women to relieve pregnancy nausea (morning sickness).
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There were still some traces in his veins of the sedative drug which had given him a few hours' sleep during the night.
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This includes almost €9,000 worth of heroin and over €4,000 worth of benzodiazepine, an anti-anxiety sedative drug.
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In 1977, he pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with a minor, after giving the 13-year-old girl champagne and a portion of a sedative drug.
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Sedative drugs are widely used in intensive care, primarily in ventilated patients.
Capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent.
Usage of depressant in English
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The effect acted like a mild depressant program or a communal virus.
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In contrast, M6G had a preferential depressant effect within the peripheral chemoreflex loop.
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Morphine had a preferential depressant effect within the central chemoreflex loop.
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Thus, rectification or blockade of myocardial depressant factors should partly ameliorate sepsis progression.
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Contractility, however, was normal and no evidence of a uremia-associated myocardial depressant was found.
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Friends tell me that physical exertion is an appetite depressant.
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Success is a great tonic, and failure a great depressant.
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With high doses the depressant effect was long-lasting and the animals showed signs of toxicity.
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You're the one who told me alcohol's a depressant.
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Some of these compounds showed remarkable depressant, antiarrhythmic and analgesic activities in mice and rats.
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Hypoxia exerts a profound depressant effect on fetal growth, lowering birth weight, and raising mortality risk.
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Background and objectives: The depressant activity on sympathetic tone of subarachnoid anesthetic block is well known.
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Morphine also has a depressant effect on the respiratory system-toomuch will literally stop your breathing.
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First, we tested if D-penicillamine was able to modify the depressant effects of acetaldehyde on behavior.
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These depressant effects were not modified by naloxone.
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When combined with any active drug, sodium seems to make it less toxic and less depressant.
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Translations for depressant
Portuguese
Russian
Depressant through the time