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Definition of Sedative drug
1. Noun. A drug that reduces excitability and calms a person.
Specialized synonyms: Chloral Hydrate, Doriden, Glutethimide, Sedative-hypnotic, Sedative-hypnotic Drug
Generic synonyms: Drug Of Abuse, Street Drug, Medicament, Medication, Medicinal Drug, Medicine
Derivative terms: Depress, Depressant, Down, Sedative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sedative Drug
Literary usage of Sedative drug
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Drug Abuse and Drug Abuse Research (1991): The Third Triennial Report to edited by MaryLouise Embrey, Christine R. Hartel (1999)
"The number of anxiolytic/sedative drug mentions in connection with emergency room
treatment increases with the age of the patients (9.5 percent at ages 25 ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1907)
"What are the symptoms of poisoning with a sedative drug and what should be the
treatment for ... a sedative drug will be either semi or wholly unconscious. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1907)
"What are the symptoms of poisoning with a sedative drug and what should ...
A patient poisoned by a sedative drug will be either semi or wholly unconscious. ..."
4. Illicit Drug Use, Smoking and Drinking by America's High School Students by Lloyd D. Johnston, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald G. Bachman (1993)
"Methaqualone, another sedative drug, has shown quite a different trend pattern.
Its use rose steadily among seniors from 1975 to 1981, ..."
5. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"The individual who develops a high tolerance for one sedative drug will subsequently
nearly always have a higher tolerance, from the beginning, ..."
6. Code of Federal Regulations by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Staff (2005)
"(d) Any OTC daytime sedative drug product introduced into interstate commerce
after December 24, 1979, that is not in compliance with this section is ..."
7. Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases by Thomas Smith Clouston (1904)
"Tho following symptoms should in my judgment make us hesitate to use any sedative
drug or stop its use, viz., a very weak, thready pulse, a very foul, ..."
8. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1835)
"The best plan in these cases is to combine the agents—the blood-letting and the
sedative drug—but at the same time to bear in mind, that there may be cases ..."
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