premedication
English
editEtymology
editFrom pre- + medication.
Noun
editpremedication (countable and uncountable, plural premedications)
- (medicine) The administration of a drug (or mixture of drugs) prior to an anesthetic, especially to induce sedation; the drug so administered.
Translations
editadministration of a drug (or mixture of drugs) prior to an anesthetic
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Adjective
editpremedication (not comparable)
- Pre medication.
- 2015 October 3, “Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Are Better than Acetaminophen on Fever Control at Acute Stage of Fracture”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- The retrospective study revealed that, in the acetaminophen group, the mean value of postmedication body temperature (BT) was significantly higher than that of the premedication BT.