tending to relax or relieve muscular or nervous tension
<adj.all> a relaxant drug
Relaxant \Re*lax"ant\ (r?-l?ks"ant), n. [L. relaxans, p. pr. of relaxare.] (Med.) A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
With less kidney function, drugs do not clear the body as fast. This might mean that a muscle relaxant that works fine for a young person might relax older people too much, causing them to fall and break a hip, he said.
They also received very small doses of painkilling drugs and a muscle relaxant.
Par has suspended sales of the generic muscle relaxant as well as those of its generic Valproic Acid, an anti-convulsant, which is being investigated.
Mrs. Adkins, 54, pressed a button that delivered a muscle relaxant and fatal doses of chemicals that put her into a coma, then stopped her heart.
Citing the manufacturing problems, the FDA recently revoked approval for Par's version of chlorzoxazone, a muscle relaxant innovated by a Johnson & Johnson division.