Definition of anxiolytic in English:
anxiolytic
adjective ˌaŋzɪəˈlɪtɪkˌæŋziəˈlɪdɪk
Medicine (chiefly of a drug) used to reduce anxiety.
Example sentencesExamples
- Sedatives are more properly called anxiolytic drugs.
- Although hypoxemia and anxiety may cause agitation and restlessness, anxiolytic medications should be administered only when the physician is prepared to intubate.
- Whilst this may be as a result of his anxiety it equally seems likely that this is a side effect of his anxiolytic drugs.
- Patients were not allowed to take antidepressant or anxiolytic drugs during the study.
- Grief mostly requires reassurance from friends and counseling by family physician with occasional small dose of anxiolytic medication.
noun ˌaŋzɪəˈlɪtɪkˌæŋziəˈlɪdɪk
Medicine A drug used to relieve anxiety.
Example sentencesExamples
- Sedatives and anxiolytics should not be used alone to manage pain because they can mask the behavioral response to pain without providing analgesia.
- Antiepileptics, antipsychotics, and anxiolytics are drugs that may be used as sedatives.
- She had received counseling, antidepressants, anxiolytics, and sleep medication from her former physician, but in her opinion these had merely dulled her cognition and memory.
- Only two classes of drugs (hypnotics and anxiolytics, and antidepressants) were independently associated with an increased odds of falling.
- Smokers with a high level of anxiety symptoms could possibly benefit from anxiolytics as a smoking cessation intervention.
Origin
1960s: from anxiety + -lytic.
Definition of anxiolytic in US English:
anxiolytic
adjectiveˌaNGzēəˈlidikˌæŋziəˈlɪdɪk
Medicine (chiefly of a drug) used to reduce anxiety.
Example sentencesExamples
- Grief mostly requires reassurance from friends and counseling by family physician with occasional small dose of anxiolytic medication.
- Sedatives are more properly called anxiolytic drugs.
- Whilst this may be as a result of his anxiety it equally seems likely that this is a side effect of his anxiolytic drugs.
- Although hypoxemia and anxiety may cause agitation and restlessness, anxiolytic medications should be administered only when the physician is prepared to intubate.
- Patients were not allowed to take antidepressant or anxiolytic drugs during the study.
nounˌaNGzēəˈlidikˌæŋziəˈlɪdɪk
Medicine An anxiolytic drug.
Example sentencesExamples
- Only two classes of drugs (hypnotics and anxiolytics, and antidepressants) were independently associated with an increased odds of falling.
- Smokers with a high level of anxiety symptoms could possibly benefit from anxiolytics as a smoking cessation intervention.
- Sedatives and anxiolytics should not be used alone to manage pain because they can mask the behavioral response to pain without providing analgesia.
- She had received counseling, antidepressants, anxiolytics, and sleep medication from her former physician, but in her opinion these had merely dulled her cognition and memory.
- Antiepileptics, antipsychotics, and anxiolytics are drugs that may be used as sedatives.
Origin
1960s: from anxiety + -lytic.