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Adjective

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train-of-four (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Relating to a monitoring protocol for neuromuscular blockade, where the muscle response to four consecutive stimuli delivered along the path of a nerve is measured to determine the level of blockade.
    train-of-four stimulation

Noun

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train-of-four (plural train-of-fours)

  1. (medicine, informal) The neuromuscular blockade monitoring method described above.