Sentence examples for tranquilizing from inspiring English sources

Tranquilizing drugs (ataractics) act primarily on the lower levels of the brain, relieving tension without reducing mental sharpness.

Diazepam, tranquilizing drug used in the treatment of anxiety and as an aid in preoperative and postoperative sedation.

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.

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.

Darts with tranquilizing drugs may be fired to immobilize animals for handling or capture.

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

Drugs that combat anxiety have been called tranquilizers, an inexact term in that they do not tranquilize as much as reduce anxiety and enable dysfunctional patients to cope more effectively with life's vicissitudes and lead more rewarding lives.

Some have been tranquilized for educational use, she claims.

A few days after the attack, a team of veterinarians tranquilized the tiger and carted it away to a zoo.

Biologists tranquilized the lion and fitted him with a radio collar; he became popularly known by his tag number, P-22.

"The enjoyment of scenery," he wrote, "employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it, tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration of the whole system".