pancuroniumn.
/ˌpaŋkjʊˈrəʊnɪəm/, U.S. /ˌpæŋkjʊˈroʊniəm/ Pharmacology.
In full pancuronium bromide. A synthetic steroid which is used as a neuromuscular blocking agent.A proprietary name for this drug is Pavulon.
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1967 Brit. Jrnl. Anæsthesia 39 775/1 Pancuronium bromide (NA97), was first synthesized in 1964 by Hewett and Savage (1966, personal communication).
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 17 June 1- d/6 Many of the breathing failures at the hospital were caused when unknown assailants injected patients with a potentially lethal muscle-paralyzing drug, pancuronium bromide.
1991 Lancet 9 Feb. 366/2 Despite emergency intubation, paralysis with pancuronium, and sedation.., adequate gas exchange was not achieved because of..high airway resistance.
2001 National Post (Canada) 13 June d1/5 Investors may feel like being strapped to a gurney and administered a lethal but painless dose of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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