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.”
Word Forms
- ketamines
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hydrochloride, ketamin, ketaminol, methoxyketamine, narketan, esketamine.
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