ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Ketamine

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈkɛt.ə.mɪn/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Ketamine is a noun meaning (pharmacology) A synthetic compound used as a dissociative anesthetic and analgesic drug and also recreationally as a hallucinogen.

Meaning

(pharmacology) A synthetic compound used as a dissociative anesthetic and analgesic drug and also recreationally as a hallucinogen.

Example Sentences

He was riding high that night, with a brick of Wage's ketamine on its way to Yokohama and the money already in his pocket.
The chatbot instructed him to give up sleeping pills and an anti-anxiety medication, and to increase his intake of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, which ChatGPT described as a “temporary pattern liberator.”

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hydrochloride, ketamin, ketaminol, methoxyketamine, narketan, esketamine.

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