muscle relaxant

noun

: a drug that relaxes muscles

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The doctor is accused of administering an anaesthetic and then a muscle relaxant to palliative patients under his care who were not actively dying and without their knowledge or consent, said prosecutors. Reuters, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025 To commit the killings, the doctor allegedly administered an anesthetic inducer and a muscle relaxant to his patients without their knowledge or consent, according to prosecutors. Lesley Cosme Torres, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025 It was subsequently discovered that two nurses had mistakenly mixed the vaccine with a muscle relaxant. Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025 In 2018, two children in Samoa died after receiving measles vaccines, because the nurses who administered them had mistakenly mixed the vaccine powder with a muscle relaxant. Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for muscle relaxant

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“Muscle relaxant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muscle%20relaxant. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.

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