Depressant Definition

dĭ-prĕsənt
depressants
adjective
Lowering the rate of muscular or nervous activity.
Webster's New World
Acting as a depressant.
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noun
depressants
An agent, especially a drug, that decreases the rate of vital physiological activities.
American Heritage Medicine
A depressant medicine, drug, etc.; sedative.
Webster's New World

(pharmacology) A pharmacological substance which decreases neuronal or physiological activity.

Alcohol acts first as a stimulant and then as a depressant.
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(mining) An agent that inhibits the flotation of a mineral or minerals.

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Noun

Singular:
depressant
Plural:
depressants

Origin of Depressant

Depressant Sentence Examples

  • It is a powerful cardiac depressant, diminishing both the force and frequency of the heart's beat.

  • This is accelerated by a marked depressant action upon the heart, similar to that produced by veratrine and aconite.

  • In medicine copper sulphate was employed as an emetic, but its employment for this purpose is now very rare, as it is exceedingly depressant, and if it fails to act, may seriously damage the gastric mucous membrane.

  • In large doses it has a depressant action on the nervous system, leading even to coma and total abolition of reflex action.

  • Digitonin, on the other hand, is a cardiac depressant, and has been found to be identical with saponin, the chief constituent of senega root.

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