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Descriptor English:
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Muscle Relaxants, Central
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Descriptor Spanish:
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relajantes musculares centrales
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Relaxantes Musculares Centrais
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Synonyms English:
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Central Muscle Relaxants
Centrally Acting Muscle Relaxants
Relaxants, Central Muscle
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Tree Number:
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D27.505.696.510
D27.505.696.663.700.600
D27.505.954.427.525
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Definition English:
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A heterogeneous group of drugs used to produce muscle relaxation, excepting the neuromuscular blocking agents. They have their primary clinical and therapeutic uses in the treatment of muscle spasm and immobility associated with strains, sprains, and injuries of the back and, to a lesser degree, injuries to the neck. They have been used also for the treatment of a variety of clinical conditions that have in common only the presence of skeletal muscle hyperactivity, for example, the muscle spasms that can occur in MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS. (From Smith and Reynard, Textbook of Pharmacology, 1991, p358) |
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Indexing Annotation English:
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refers to skeletal muscle relaxants only: smooth muscle relaxants = PARASYMPATHOLYTICS
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See Related English:
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Parasympatholytics
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History Note English:
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70; MUSCLE RELAXANTS was see under CURARE-LIKE AGENTS & MUSCLE RELAXANTS, CENTRAL & NEUROMUSCULAR DEPOLARIZING AGENTS 1970-74, was heading 1963-69
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Allowable Qualifiers English:
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Record Number:
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9315
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Unique Identifier:
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D009125
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Similar:
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DeCS
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