ketamine

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Definitions of ketamine word

noun ketamine a synthetic nonbarbiturate general anesthetic, C 13 H 16 ClNO, used to induce anesthesia, alone or in combination, in surgical or diagnostic procedures of short duration; extensively used in veterinary medicine. 1
noun ketamine A synthetic compound used as an anesthetic and analgesic drug and also (illicitly) as a hallucinogen. 1
noun ketamine a drug, chemically related to PCP, that is used in medicine as a general anaesthetic, being administered by injection; cyclohexylamine 0

before 1965

One of the 2% newest English words

First recorded in 1965-70; ket- + -amine

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 71% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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