RELAXANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relaxant mean? 

• RELAXANT (noun)
  The noun RELAXANT has 1 sense:

1. a drug that relaxes and relieves tension

  Familiarity information: RELAXANT used as a noun is very rare.

• RELAXANT (adjective)
  The adjective RELAXANT has 1 sense:

1. tending to relax or relieve muscular or nervous tension

  Familiarity information: RELAXANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELAXANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A drug that relaxes and relieves tension

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("relaxant" is a kind of...):

drug (a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relaxant"):

muscle relaxant (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)

Derivation:

relax (cause to feel relaxed)

relaxant (tending to relax or relieve muscular or nervous tension)

• RELAXANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to relax or relieve muscular or nervous tension

Context example:

a relaxant drug

Similar:

depressant (capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent)

Derivation:

relax (cause to feel relaxed)

relax (become less tense, rest, or take one's ease)

relaxant (a drug that relaxes and relieves tension)

 Context examples 

An oxazolidinone with centrally-acting skeletal muscle relaxant properties.

(Metaxalone, NCI Thesaurus)

The fumarate salt form of fesoterodine, a competitive muscarinic receptor antagonist with muscle relaxant and urinary antispasmodic properties.

(Fesoterodine Fumarate, NCI Thesaurus)

A competitive muscarinic receptor antagonist with muscle relaxant and urinary antispasmodic properties.

(Fesoterodine, NCI Thesaurus)

Synthetic compounds or mixtures with muscle relaxant activity.

(Muscle Relaxant Preparation, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a direct-acting smooth muscle relaxant used in the treatment of impotence and as a vasodilator, especially for cerebral vasodilation.

(Papaverine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The bromide salt form of pancuronium, a synthetic, long-acting ammonio steroid muscle relaxant with curarimimetic, some antimuscarinic and sympathomimetic effects.

(Pancuronium Bromide, NCI Thesaurus)

A muscarinic antagonist with muscle relaxant activity.

(Orphenadrine, NCI Thesaurus)

The sodium salt form of dantrolene, a hydantoin derivative and direct-acting skeletal muscle relaxant.

(Dantrolene Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

A triazolo-benzodiazepine with anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, hypnotic, and muscle relaxant properties.

(Estazolam, NCI Thesaurus)

A hydantoin derivative and direct-acting skeletal muscle relaxant.

(Dantrolene, NCI Thesaurus)