Synonyms for ketamine
ke·tamine

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1. ketamine, ketamine hydrochloride, Ketalarnoun

   a general anesthetic and tranquilizer (not a barbiturate) that is administered intravenously or intramuscularly; used mainly by veterinarians or for minor surgery with geriatric or pediatric patients; taken in large doses it causes hallucinations similar to those associated with the use of PCP

   Synonyms:
   ketamine hydrochloride

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1. • Club Drug
   • General Anesthetic

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ketamine

   Synonyms:
   Special K, Super K

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1. Elijah McKnight in 2019:

   They said I didn't need to be hospitalized. So they definitely wasn't going to give me ketamine until the police asked for it, i definitely wasn't experiencing excited delirium, I can tell you that.

2. Joseph Baker:

   I have been pressured by police to administer ketamine.

3. Kenneth Udoibok:

   People are not complaining that Joseph Baker injected them with ketamine. They are complaining that a police officer caused that to happen.

4. Celia Morgan:

   Ketamine is a well-tolerated drug and can help alleviate the symptoms of depression, with a pilot study suggesting that it could cut alcohol relapse rates by more than half, this trial will allow us to examine whether ketamine, combined with therapy, can indeed help people stay abstinent from alcohol.

5. Walter Dunn .:

   Even clinicians would have a difficult time diagnosing an excited delirium, when you employ ketamine you better be darn sure that this is excited delirium and not something else.