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What does pethidine mean?

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Noun
  1. (pharmacology) A fast-acting opioid analgesic drug used in the treatment of severe pain. [from 20th c.]
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Because the pharmacy had no pethidine, the general practitioner obtained an ampoule of diamorphine containing 100 mg and administered the whole dose intramuscularly.
In this example, the estimate of the quantity of pethidine to be consumed in 2006 needs to be determined.
The court heard he had been injecting himself in the arms and legs for six months with pethidine, a pain-relieving drug normally given to women in labour.
By contrast, morphine and other painkillers such as pethidine and dihydrocodeine are hard to find in state systems in poor countries.
Because of the side effects for your baby pethidine is not administered at the end of the dilation stage.
In many developing countries, pethidine continues to be the only strong analgesic available, although it is available in insufficient quantities.

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