- 1鎮靜劑（比口語的「安眠藥」廣：主要是讓人安靜，睡著只是常見結果）
A sedative is a drug that slows you down: it calms a racing mind or a tense body, and in a stronger dose it can send you to sleep. Doctors give sedatives before some treatments, at night when someone cannot rest, or when a person is so upset they cannot be still. In everyday talk people also say sleeping pills or tranquillisers; those names are a bit looser. A sedative’s job is to quiet you, and sleep is often how that quiet arrives. You will see the word on medicine packets and in hospital notes. It can also be a describing word: a sedative drug, a sedative effect. Though actually, a sedative is not a . It does not take the away so much as it takes the edge off you. Used , these drugs can be strong and habit-forming, which is why they are given with care.
組成Inherited from Middle English sedatif, from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin sēdātīvus. By the pieces you can see: sedate + -ive, ‘having that calming effect’.
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sedativenoun/ˈsɛdətɪv/
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medicinepharmacologysciencesAn agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep.
- Michael Jackson probably died after he rapidly injected himself with a dose of the surgical anesthetic propofol on top of a large dose of sedatives he swallowed when Dr. Conrad Murray was away, the defense’s propofol expert testified Friday. […] White also concluded that Jackson swallowed a large dose of lorazepam several hours earlier, which would have left "a very high concentration" of the sedative in his body.
sedativeadj/ˈsɛdətɪv/
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medicinepharmacologysciencesCalming, soothing, inducing sleep, tranquilizing
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