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Definition of Analeptics
1. analeptic [n] - See also: analeptic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Analeptics
Literary usage of Analeptics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoranda medica ; or, Note-book of medical principles by Henry Hartshorne (1860)
"Now the first of these (stimulants) are adapted especially to acute prostration
or depression; the second class (analeptics), to chronic prostration or ..."
2. Clinical therapeutics: A Handbook on the Special Treatment of Internal Disease by Alfred Careño Croftan (1907)
"... is given to gradually strengthen the heart by the use of heart tonics, it
becomes necessary to have recourse to analeptics, as an emergency measure. ..."
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