muscle_relaxant (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *muscle relaxant*:
NOUN	artifact	muscle relaxant	a drug that reduces muscle contractility by blocking the transmission of nerve impulses or by decreasing the excitability of the motor end plate or by other actions

English > *muscle relaxant*: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact
Meaning	A drug that reduces muscle contractility by blocking the transmission of nerve impulses or by decreasing the excitability of the motor end plate or by other actions.
Narrower	benzodiazepine	Any of several similar lipophilic amines used as tranquilizers or sedatives or hypnotics or muscle relaxants
	cyclobenzaprine, Flexeril	muscle relaxant (trade name Flexeril) used for muscle spasms or acute injury
	gallamine, Flaxedil	neuromuscular blocking agent (trade name Flaxedil) used as a muscle relaxant in the administration of anesthesia
	methocarbamol, Robaxin	muscle relaxant for skeletal muscles (trade name Robaxin) used to treat spasms
	orphenadrine, Norflex	A skeletal muscle relaxant (trade name Norflex) used to treat severe muscle strain and Parkinsonism
	papaverine, Kavrin	An alkaloid medicine (trade name Kavrin) obtained from opium
	procyclidine, Kemadrin	drug (trade name Kemadrin) used to reduce tremors in Parkinsonism
	succinylcholine	A muscle relaxant for striated muscle that is used as an adjunct to anesthesia during certain surgical procedures
Broader	relaxant	A drug that relaxes and relieves / relieves tension
Catalan	antiespasmòdic

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