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  • adjective Relating to or being a drug that does not cause sedation as a side effect.

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  • adjective nonsedative

Etymologies

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non- +‎ sedating

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Examples

  • Insurers then decide that all "nonsedating antihistamines" are equivalent, despite the fact that they are different compounds and the fact that Claritin is anything but "nonsedating" when taken by some patients, including me.

    Obscenities fail to do justice to my current feelings about my health insurer. bradamant 2002

  • The iridescent poison dart frogs from northwest Columbia produce epibatidine which is being tested as a nonsedating, nonaddictive, nonopioid painkiller.

    Dr. Reese Halter: Mother Nature's Medicine Cabinet Dr. Reese Halter 2010

  • The iridescent poison dart frogs from northwest Columbia produce epibatidine which is being tested as a nonsedating, nonaddictive, nonopioid painkiller.

    Dr. Reese Halter: Mother Nature's Medicine Cabinet Dr. Reese Halter 2010

  • For medications, you can use steroid creams to relieve the itch (apply after bath, prior to moisturizer) or antihistamines to quell the allergic reaction (prescription ones can be nonsedating).

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • For medications, you can use steroid creams to relieve the itch (apply after bath, prior to moisturizer) or antihistamines to quell the allergic reaction (prescription ones can be nonsedating).

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • For medications, you can use steroid creams to relieve the itch (apply after bath, prior to moisturizer) or antihistamines to quell the allergic reaction (prescription ones can be nonsedating).

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • For medications, you can use steroid creams to relieve the itch (apply after bath, prior to moisturizer) or antihistamines to quell the allergic reaction (prescription ones can be nonsedating).

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Will the new nonsedating antihistamines alleviate cold symptoms?

    Finding The Right Rx 2008

  • For more than a decade now, satiety has been a kind of amazing, comfortable, nonsedating, nonbloating, great feeling that carries no sensation in my stomach other than total contentment.

    The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007

  • For more than a decade now, satiety has been a kind of amazing, comfortable, nonsedating, nonbloating, great feeling that carries no sensation in my stomach other than total contentment.

    The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007

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