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euthanasiate

euthanasiate noun: any drug used to euthanize an animal.

Noun

euthanasiate (plural euthanasiates)

  1. Any drug used to euthanize an animal.
    • That chemical methods of euthanasia (such as injectable euthanasiates such as barbituates) far outweighed all other methods used to perform euthanasia of laboratory animals.1990, Gary Martinic, “euthanasia of laboratory animals”, in Animal Technology
    • The Environmental Health Unit of Queensland Health has issued appropriately trained wildlife carers in two organisations with authority to hold and use a small selection of restricted (S4) veterinary drugs including: Pentabarbitone sodium (Valabarb, Lethabarb): a veterinary euthanasiate; Alfaxalone...2005, Jon Haner, Andrew Tribe, “Management of critically ill wildlife: the reality and practice of wildlife euthanasia”, in National Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference

Verb

euthanasiate (third-person singular simple present euthanasiates, present participle euthanasiating, simple past and past participle euthanasiated)

  1. To kill in a humane manner.
    • The dog was euthanasiated 40 days after the MRI examination because its convulsions had worsened.2000, Hiroshi Koie, Ester Norie Kurotobi, Takeo Sakai, “Double-chambered right ventricle in a dog”, in Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, volume 6
    • The experiment was carried out 240 days long, on Wistar rats, intraperitoneally injected once with aqueous asbestos suspension. In the end, animals were euthanasiated by prolonged narcosis.2008, B. Sevastre, C. Cătoi, A.I. Marcus, “LESIONAL ASPECTS IN RAT EXPERIMENTAL ASBESTOSIS”, in Bulletin of University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Examples of euthanasiate in a sentence

  • At all times the euthanasiates should be in a locked container/area when not in the possession of a veterinarian2012, Australian Veternary Association, Indigenous Community Animal Health Program (ICAHP) Model and Guidelines:
  • On a stork whit multiple fractures which was later euthanasiated, some anatomic and histology observation were made on the esophagus.2009, V Rus, V Miclaus, GC Nadas, D Cadar, “STRUCTURAL PARTICULARITIES OF THE WHITE STORK (CICONIA CICONIA) ESOPHAGUS.”, in Annals of the...

Synonyms of euthanasiate

Forms of euthanasiate

Noun
pluraleuthanasiates
Verb
third-person singular presenteuthanasiates
present participleeuthanasiating
past participleeuthanasiated
pasteuthanasiated

Questions about euthanasiate

What does euthanasiate mean?
Euthanasiate means any drug used to euthanize an animal.
How do you use euthanasiate in a sentence?
At all times the euthanasiates should be in a locked container/area when not in the possession of a veterinarian
What part of speech is euthanasiate?
Euthanasiate can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of euthanasiate?
The plural of euthanasiate is euthanasiates.

Words near euthanasiate in the dictionary

  1. euthanasiac
  2. euthanasiacs
  3. euthanasian
  4. euthanasians
  5. euthanasias
  6. euthanasiate
  7. euthanasiates
  8. euthanasic
  9. euthanasing
  10. euthanasist
  11. euthanasists

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