Muscle Relaxant

Definition: Muscle Relaxant

Muscle Relaxant

Noun

1. 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.

Specialty Definition: Muscle Relaxant

Domain	Definition
Health	An agent that specifically aids in reducing muscle tension, as those acting at the polysynaptic neurons of motor nerves (e.g. meprobamate) or at the myoneural junction (curare and related compounds). (references)
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Specialty Definition: Muscle relaxant

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In medicine, a muscle relaxant is a drug that causes skeletal muscle contraction to cease. Muscle relaxants are used to facilitate surgery, to enable tracheal intubation and to facilitate mechanical ventilation.

Muscles relaxants typically work by blocking the effect of acetylcholine (ACh) at the neuromuscular junction.

Receptor blockers

Substances that compete with ACh, for the receptors on a muscle cell can be either depolarising, or non-depolarising.

Depolarising muscles relaxants activate the muscle briefly, before blocking it.

Succinylcholine

Non-depolarising relaxants block the ACh receptors without activating them.

Curare
Curare-based molecules, e.g. turbocuranine, pancuronium bromide.

Other mechanisms

Botulinum toxin, marketed as Botox for facial wrinkle removal, works by stopping the release of ACh from the presynaptic neuron.

Central acting muscle relaxants

Benzodiazepines

Acting on smooth muscle

Amyl nitrite

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Muscle relaxant."

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Crosswords: Muscle Relaxant

English words defined with "muscle relaxant": cyclobenzaprine ♦ Flaxedil, Flexeril ♦ gallamine ♦ methocarbamol ♦ Norflex ♦ orphenadrine ♦ Robaxin ♦ succinylcholine. (references)

Specialty definitions using "muscle relaxant": Alcuronium ♦ Clorazepate Dipotassium, Cyclandelate ♦ Dantrolene ♦ Medazepam, Mephenesin ♦ Xylazine ♦ Zoxazolamine. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Muscle Relaxant

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Nitroglycerin, a muscle relaxant, sometimes can enhance erection when rubbed on the surface of the penis. (references)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Muscle Relaxant

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
muscle relaxant	41
soma muscle relaxant	7
muscle relaxant skeletal	4
muscle relaxant drug	3
muscle relaxant medication	2
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Modern Translation: Muscle Relaxant

Language		Translations for "muscle relaxant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		muskelrelaxantia, muskelrelakserende middel. (various references)

Dutch		musculair relaxans, spierrelaxans. (various references)

Finnish		lihasrelaksantti. (various references)

French		myorelaxant. (various references)

German		Muskelrelaxans. (various references)

Greek		μυοχαλαρωτικός. (various references)

Italian		miorilassante, miolitico, che riduce la tensione dei muscoli. (various references)

Pig Latin		usclemay elaxantray

Portuguese		miorrelaxante. (various references)

Spanish		miorrelajante. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Muscle Relaxant

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
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