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/ˈzaɪləziːn/ · noun
(pharmacology) A potent α₂-adrenergic agonist used for sedation, anesthesia, and analgesia in large nonhuman mammals, and as an adulterant in street drugs..
After 15, 30, 60 or 90 days, the animals (n = 5 per time point for each subgroup) were sacrificed via an overdose of ketamine and xylazine hydrochloride (Vetbrands Brazil Limited, Jacareí, SP), and the hemimaxillae were removed and fixed in 10% formalin solution (Fig 1 ).
The user had a hunch that there was fentanyl in the powder but feared the presence of xylazine, a dangerous animal tranquilizer that can leave oozing wounds on limbs.
In her shattered Philadelphia neighborhood, and increasingly in drug hot zones around the country, an animal tranquilizer called xylazine — known by street names like “tranq,” “tranq dope” and “zombie drug” — is being used to bulk up illicit fentanyl, making its impact even more devastating.
Use xylazine when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Xylazine means (pharmacology) A potent α₂-adrenergic agonist used for sedation, anesthesia, and analgesia in large nonhuman mammals, and as an adulterant in street drugs..
Common synonyms include sedazine, xylacine, xylazil, tranq.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
After 15, 30, 60 or 90 days, the animals (n = 5 per time point for each subgroup) were sacrificed via an overdose of ketamine and xylazine hydrochloride (Vetbrands Brazil Limited, Jacareí, SP), and the hemimaxillae were removed and fixed in 10% formalin solution (Fig 1 ).
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