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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A bitter white powder, C9H18N2O4, used as a tranquilizer, muscle relaxant, and anticonvulsant.

Wiktionary

  1. n. pharmacy A carbamate derivative used as an anxiolytic drug.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a sedative and tranquilizer (trade name Miltown and Equanil and Meprin) used to treat muscle tension and anxiety

Etymologies

  1. me(thyl) + pro(pyl) + (car)bamate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Drugs found in Haim's system included the cough-suppressant dextromethorphan; the antihistamine diphenhydramine; carisoprodol, a prescription muscle relaxant; the tranquilizers diazepam and meprobamate, which are found in Valium and other medications; and the antidepressants fluoxetine and olanzapine.”

    The Huffington Post: Corey Haim Cause Of Death: Pneumonia Complications, NOT Drugs

  • “Drugs for tension, stress, alcohol withdrawal and depression that contain diazepan or meprobamate can also cause problems with lack of feeling cold.”

    Cold Weather, Winter and Hypothermia.

  • “More recent medications—Beller-gal-S, hydroxyzine (an antihistamine with sedative properties), tranquilizers like reserpine and meprobamate, and (in Russia) bromides combined with calcium chloride—have targeted secondary symptoms of stuttering, like anxiety and stress.”

    Simon & Schuster: Knotted Tongues

  • “Other than meprobamate, the first group is almost never used.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

  • “Other nonbarbiturate sedatives-hypnotics include (1) glycol or glycerol derivatives (e.g., meprobamate) and (2) diphenylmethane derivatives (e.g., diphenhydramine, hydroxyzine).”

    Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

  • “At dinner, seven more-why, thought Ryeland through his comfortable haze of meprobamate, that left only three in the entire cottage who had not been called for some donation that day, and Ryeland was one of them.”

    Starchild Omnibus

  • “In a few cases in which I tried tranquilizing pills of the meprobamate type there was some slight improvement.”

    Disturbing Sun

  • “Pharmacies are empty although meprobamate is easy to obtain. doctors are unavailable because castro sends them all overseas as payment for goods or communist propaganda.”

    Gay/Lesbian Forum

  • “Pharmacies are empty although meprobamate is easy to obtain. doctors are unavailable because castro sends them all overseas as payment for goods or communist propaganda.therealcuba. com are OLD and from some places that don't exist anymore.”

    Gay/Lesbian Forum

  • “The drugs in his system also included the antidepressants fluoxetine and olanzapine; the tranquilizers diazepam and meprobamate, which are found in Valium and other medications; the cough-suppressant dextromethorphan; and the antihistamine diphenhydramine.”

    WSBTV.com - Local News

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