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noun - a medication used as a stimulant to the central nervous system
adj - stimulating the central nervous system
A medication used as a central nervous system stimulant.
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Can pet ail awfully? Here's a drug |
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Mar 22 2006 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
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Restorative or stimulating, as a drug or medication. |
A medication used as a central nervous system stimulant. |
(chiefly of a drug) tending to restore a person's health or strength restorative. |
A restorative drug. |
a restorative drug. |
a medication used as a stimulant to the central nervous system |
stimulating the central nervous system |
Analeptic description |
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An analeptic, in medicine, is a central nervous system stimulant. The term analeptic typically refers to respiratory analeptics (for example, doxapram). Analeptics are central nervous system stimulants that include a wide variety of medications used to treat depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and respiratory depression. Analeptics can also be used as convulsants, with low doses causing patients to experience heightened awareness, restlessness and rapid breathing. * The primary medical use of these drugs is as an anesthetic recovery tool or to treat emergency respiratory depression. * Other drugs of this category are prethcamide, pentylenetetrazole, and nikethamide. Nikethamide is now withdrawn due to risk of convulsions. Analeptics have recently been used to better understand the treatment of a barbiturate overdose. Through the use of agents researchers were able to treat obtundation and respiratory depression. Various analeptics contain epononymous names. E.g |