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What does procaine mean?

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Noun
  1. (pharmacology) A drug used as a local anaesthetic.
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They removed the tumour but weeks of chemotherapy followed with daily intramuscular injections of procaine penicillin for the syphilis.
In comparative studies, dry needling was found to be as effective as injecting an anesthetic solution such as procaine or lidocaine.
The local anesthetics procaine and tetracaine are known inhibitors of excitation-contraction coupling in frog skeletal muscle.
That the White House physician, Dr. Janet Travell, gave him injections of procaine for his pain is old news.
The alternative regimen is procaine penicillin G, 50,000 units per kg intramuscularly every day for 10 days.
Historically, procaine has been used for this purpose, although lidocaine is also commonly used today.

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