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preˈmedicate, v.
[pre- A. 1.]
trans. To give preparatory medication to, now esp. before anæsthesia. Hence preˈmedicating vbl. n.
1846Grote Greece i. xiii. I. 324 The body of Jasôn having been thus pre⁓medicated, became invulnerable. 1940MacIntosh & Pratt Essent. Gen. Anæsthesia x. 91 The dose of premedicating drug a patient will require can often be roughly gauged by his resistance to alcohol. 1972Nature 15 Dec. 411/1 Before the injection..patients were premedicated with 100 mg of pethidine.
Hence premediˈcation, medication given prior to or in preparation for the main treatment; spec. a pre-anæsthetic. Cf. pre-med n.2
1926Surg., Gynecol. & Obstetr. XLIII. 103/2 All patients received as a premedication half a gram of veronal and 2 centigrams of morphine. 1932Brit. Jrnl. Anaesthesia IX. 41 For the purpose of this discussion, by premedication is understood a new conception of preanaesthetic medication, whereby the patient is rendered unconscious in his bed before the administration of the anaesthetic. 1965J. Pollitt Depression & its Treatment iv. 57 If an emergency operation must be performed.., the combination of chlorpromazine..and a barbiturate..is effective as premedication. |