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Depressant meaning
A pharmacological substance which decreases neuronal or physiological activity. | An agent that inhibits the flotation of a mineral or minerals.
Example sentences (19)
Hilary suffers from schizophrenia, which manifests itself in confusion and mood swings, for which she receives depressant medication.
She is treating her symptoms with anti-depressant medication, which she said eases things despite not solving the problem.
Sounds like he needed a dose of a depressant.
Because alcohol is a depressant, drinking can drown your mood.
Anecdotally, some people clandestinely “microdose,” psilocybin daily, for its anti-depressant properties; taking just enough to elevate one’s mood, but not enough to feel the hallucinogenic effects.
Coleman has testified that, on that day, the couple fought, Boyle forced her into the shower, hit her across the face and supervised as she took three pills of trazadone, his anti-depressant medication.
In the last ten years, Anti-depressant use has doubled; which in no way is linked to austerity, war and Mrs Brown’s Boys.
Resistance members doubled their anti-depressant dosages and went into mourning.
The medication the president touted was an esketamine nasal spray the FDA approved in March as a fast-acting anti-depressant.
This was combined with an SSRI anti-depressant medication used in the treatment of OCD.
Witt was also found to have a muscle relaxant and anti-depressant in her system.
Over the summer Canadians were hit by an EpiPen shortage and last month pharmacies started running out of a widely-used anti-depressant.
When the CDC report came out, CBS news asked a New York psychiatrist named Ami Baxi to explain the steep, steady rise in anti-depressant use.
When the substance is a depressant it makes the body wants to close in and rest and also the mind to be slowed down while on the other hand the hallucinogen will make one escape from reality and see scary things that are not there.
A doctor is seeking an anti-depressant for a newly diagnosed patient.
Exogenous substances (metabolic ataxia) Exogenous substances that cause ataxia mainly do so because they have a depressant effect on central nervous system function.
It may also potentiate the CNS depressant effects of alcohol.
Probability of outcomes Consider the anti-depressant example above.
The Amanita intoxication is similar to Z-drugs in that it includes CNS depressant and sedative hypnotic effects, but also dissociation and delirium in high doses.