Sentence examples for a tranquilizing effect from inspiring English sources

The drug has a unique biphasic psychoactive effect: when inhaled in short puffs it acts as a stimulant, but when smoked in deep drags it can have a tranquilizing effect.

The researchers initially assumed that baby handling might have a tranquilizing effect on the males, but on measuring the macaques' hormone levels, they found the opposite: carrying an infant caused a male's stress hormones to spike.

In its psychoactive effects, nicotine is a unique substance with a biphasic effect; when inhaled in short puffs it has a stimulant effect, but when smoked in deep drags it can have a tranquilizing effect.

In fact, developmentally disabled residents of group homes in New York are more likely to be given Ativan, an anti-anxiety drug that has a tranquilizing effect, than multivitamins, the records show.

An obituary on Friday about Dr. Frank M. Berger, the inventor of Miltown, the first mass-market psychiatric drug, misstated the date and place of his death and described incorrectly the facility where he discovered that a chemical agent he was working with had a tranquilizing effect on laboratory animals.

Gazing at the palm trees swaying in the breeze had a tranquilizing effect.

But this meltdown has been more than an economic failure; it was brought on by our collective addiction to the thrill of unnecessary risk, to the frisson of financial anxiety, the tranquilizing effect of not knowing.

Domokos held a rifle loaded with a tranquilizing dart that could put a quarter-ton mammal to sleep.

CIBA is interested in tension and anxiety partly because more than half its gross sales are now accounted for by Serpasil, a tranquilizing drug.

The police decided to shoot the moose, not with a bullet, but with a tranquilizing dart.

Wall had brought equipment to shoot the lion with a tranquilizing dart, but could not see beyond the lion's eyes, forehead and ears.