Sentence examples for suppressant from inspiring English sources
noun
A substance that suppresses.
Although diamorphine was invented in Britain in the 1870s, by two chemists working in Manchester and London, it was first patented in the 1900s in Germany by the Bayer Company of Elberfeld, which promoted it as a non-addictive cough suppressant and called this new medicine heroin from the German heroisch (heroic) – the first users claimed that this was how it made them feel.
How harshly should he be judged?In this section America's future Beijing's nightmare Dodging the bill Have a little more patience with Mr Mukherjee Appetite suppressant The perils down south Reprints Related items India's budget: Hopes suspendedJul 9th 2009The investors' frustration is understandable.
HOFFMANN-LA-ROCHE, a Swiss drugs firm, is best known for Valium, a tranquiliser, and Xenical, an appetite suppressant with uncomfortable side effects.
Experiments in rats themselves showed similar results.Hamartin, which is also known as a tumour suppressant, encourages a cellular recycling mechanism called autophagy.
Codeine, also called methylmorphine, naturally occurring alkaloid of opium, the dried milky exudate of the unripe seed capsule of the poppy Papaver somniferum, that is used in medicine as a cough suppressant and analgesic drug.
Dextromethorphan is a nonopioid cough suppressant nearly as effective as codeine and is available in over-the-counter preparations.
It has designed a plastic fuel-tank shell that is packed with fire-suppressant powder, which is released if the shell shatters.
Since then, consumers have snatched up extracts of this endangered plant by ordering it online.Meanwhile, researchers at the French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Aventis have come up with a novel appetite-suppressant of their own and one that might also help smokers as well as food cravers kick the habit.
Since the mid-1990s, Fujisawa has doubled the share of its revenues that come from overseas, to 45%, on the back of such drugs as Prograf, an immuno-suppressant.
It had not been fitted with explosion-suppressant foam, which could have saved it, despite recommendations that it should be.
Sarah Chapman, whose brother Flight Sergeant Bob O'Connor was one of 10 servicemen killed when their RAF Hercules aircraft, which had not been fitted with explosive-suppressant foam, was shot down over Iraq in 2005, said yesterday: "They cannot justify the amounts they are getting paid.
