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metedomidine

metedomidine is the misspelling of medetomidine.

Meaning of medetomidine

Noun

medetomidine (uncountable)

  1. A synthetic drug used in veterinary and human medicine as both a surgical anesthetic and analgesic, molecular formula C₁₃H₁₆N₂; it is also used as an adulterant of street drugs.
    • Mice were anaesthetized with a mixture of fentanyl (0.05 mg kg -1 ), midazolam (5.0 mg kg -1 ) and medetomidine (0.5 mg kg -1 ).2008 November 12, Sonja B. Hofer, Thomas D. Mrsic-Flogel, Tobias Bonhoeffer, Mark Hübener, “Experience leaves a lasting structural trace in cortical circuits”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7227, →DOI

Questions about metedomidine

What is metedomidine the misspelling of?
Metedomidine is the misspelling of medetomidine.

Words near metedomidine in the dictionary

  1. mete-wand
  2. mete-wands
  3. metecorn
  4. meted
  5. meted out
  6. metedomidine
  7. meteg
  8. metegs
  9. metelimumab
  10. Metelne
  11. metely

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metedomidine (page history and authors); medetomidine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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