euthanasiate

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noun

Any drug used to euthanize an animal.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nouneuthanasiate (plural euthanasiates)

plural euthanasiates

  1. biologyAny drug used to euthanize an animal.

    At all times the euthanasiates should be in a locked container/area when not in the possession of a veterinarian

    2012, Australian Veternary Association, Indigenous Community Animal Health Program (ICAHP) Model and Guidelines
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    That chemical methods of euthanasia (such as injectable euthanasiates such as barbituates) far outweighed all other methods used to perform euthanasia of laboratory animals.

    1990, Gary Martinic, “euthanasia of laboratory animals”, in Animal Technology

    The Environmental Health Unit of Queensland Health has issued appropriately trained wildlife carers in two organisations with authority to hold and use a small selection of restricted (S4) veterinary drugs including: Pentabarbitone sodium (Valabarb, Lethabarb): a veterinary euthanasiate; Alfaxalone and Zoletil: anaesthetics; Diazepam (Pamlin): a sedative; Meloxicam: an antiinflammatory pain reliever.

    2005, Jon Haner, Andrew Tribe, “Management of critically ill wildlife: the reality and practice of wildlife euthanasia”, in National Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference
verbeuthanasiate (third-person singular simple present euthanasiates, present participle euthanasiating, simple past and past participle euthanasiated)

present singular third person euthanasiates · participle present euthanasiating · participle past euthanasiated · past euthanasiated

  1. biologyTo kill in a humane manner.

    The dog was euthanasiated 40 days after the MRI examination because its convulsions had worsened.

    2000, Hiroshi Koie, Ester Norie Kurotobi, Takeo Sakai, “Double-chambered right ventricle in a dog”, in Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, volume 6
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    The experiment was carried out 240 days long, on Wistar rats, intraperitoneally injected once with aqueous asbestos suspension. In the end, animals were euthanasiated by prolonged narcosis.

    2008, B. Sevastre, C. Cătoi, A.I. Marcus, “LESIONAL ASPECTS IN RAT EXPERIMENTAL ASBESTOSIS”, in Bulletin of University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    On a stork whit multiple fractures which was later euthanasiated, some anatomic and histology observation were made on the esophagus.

    2009, V Rus, V Miclaus, GC Nadas, D Cadar, “STRUCTURAL PARTICULARITIES OF THE WHITE STORK (CICONIA CICONIA) ESOPHAGUS.”, in Annals of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology, volume 14, number 1

    Synonyms: euthanatize, euthanize, euthanise

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo kill in a humane manner.

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