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Definition of Antispasmodic agent
1. Noun. A drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles).
Specialized synonyms: Atropine
Generic synonyms: Medicament, Medication, Medicinal Drug, Medicine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antispasmodic Agent
Literary usage of Antispasmodic agent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Climatologist by Carlos Juan Finlay (1892)
"Of late years it has been my almost invariable custom to precede the arsenical
treatment by some antispasmodic agent, such as chloral or ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"... distributes the effect of this antispasmodic agent on the nerve centres, and
thereby obviates for the time the depressing influences of the disease. ..."
3. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"Valerian imparts its therapeutic properties, which are those of a stimulating
antispasmodic agent, both to water and to alcohol. There are three officinal ..."
4. The Homoeopathic Materia Medica by Alphonse Téste, Charles Julius Hempel (1854)
"... emetic, cathartic and sudorific properties, that have been denied to it since,2
it is now-a-days an antispasmodic agent oî a doubtful character. ..."
5. An Elementary Course of Botany: Structural, Physiological, and Systematic by Arthur Henfrey, Maxwell Tylden Masters (1878)
"... known as an antispasmodic agent, and used in perfumery, is '•b' .lined from
the fruit of ..."
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