Taber's Medical Dictionary
tranquilizer
tranquilizer is a topic covered in the Taber's Medical Dictionary.
To view the entire topic, please sign in or purchase a subscription.
Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary Online + App from F.A. Davis and Unbound Medicine. Find 65,000 medical and nursing definitions. Download to iPhone, iPad, and Android. Explore these free sample topics:
-- The first section of this topic is shown below --
(tran″kwĭ-līz′ĕr )
(trang″kwĭ-līz′ĕr)
[L. tranquillus, calm]
A drug that reduces tension, agitation, hyperactivity, and anxiety. Some tranquilizers may injure the developing embryo. Therefore, before prescribing one, one should know whether it is approved for use during pregnancy, esp. early pregnancy.
-- To view the remaining sections of this topic, please sign in or purchase a subscription --
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Tranquilizer." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 23rd ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Taber's Online, www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/738811/all/tranquilizer.
Tranquilizer. In: Venes D, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. 23rd ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/738811/all/tranquilizer. Accessed December 13, 2019.
Tranquilizer. (2017). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary. Available from https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/738811/all/tranquilizer
Tranquilizer [Internet]. In: Venes D, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. [cited 2019 December 13]. Available from: https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/738811/all/tranquilizer.
* Article titles in AMA citation format should be in sentence-case
TY - ELEC
T1 - tranquilizer
ID - 738811
ED - Venes,Donald,
BT - Taber's Medical Dictionary
UR - https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/738811/all/tranquilizer
PB - F.A. Davis Company
ET - 23
DB - Taber's Online
DP - Unbound Medicine
ER -