Chemicals and Drugs

Dissociative Anesthetics

Intravenous anesthetics that induce a state of sedation, immobility, amnesia, and marked analgesia. Subjects may experience a strong feeling of dissociation from the environment. The condition produced is similar to NEUROLEPTANALGESIA, but is brought about by the administration of a single drug. (From Gilman et al., Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 8th ed)

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Intravenous anesthetics that induce a state of sedation, immobility, amnesia, and marked analgesia. Subjects may experience a strong feeling of dissociation from the environment. The condition produced is similar to NEUROLEPTANALGESIA, but is brought about by the administration of a single drug. (From Gilman et al., Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 8th ed)

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  • Anesthetics, Dissociative

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Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, analysis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.

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intravenous anesthetics inducing selective loss of some sensations, leaving others intact

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91(71); was see under ANESTHETICS 1971-90

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  • Anesthetics (1966-1970)

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Dissociative Anesthetics. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000778. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000778
  2. Dissociative Anesthetics. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50429828