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DEPRESSANT

\dɪpɹˈɛsənt], \dɪpɹˈɛsənt], \d_ɪ_p_ɹ_ˈɛ_s_ə_n_t]\

Definitions of DEPRESSANT

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

1. Lowering the vital tone; reducing functional activity. 2. An agent which lowers nervous or functional activity, a sedative.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

Medicine causing decreased activity of heart.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

Anything that lowers vital activity.

1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.

An agent which retards any function; an active sedative.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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