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• Quinine
  ...|url= }} Also cites {{cite book |title=The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity |last=Porter |first=Roy |authorlink= |coauthors= |year= ...rl= |accessdate= |quote= }}</ref> but none of them can compete in economic terms with isolation of the alkaloid from natural sources. The first synthetic [[
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• Mefloquine
  ...vid dreams.<ref>{{Cite journal | author = Schlagenhauf | journal = British Medical Journal | volume = 327 | issue = 8 | year = 2003}}</ref> A [[This American ...0 µM, an effect closely related to the acute neurotoxicity of the drug in terms of dose effect and kinetics."<ref name="Dow2004" />
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• Potassium iodide
  ...roshima and 20 Years After Chernobyl | journal = [[Journal of the American Medical Association|JAMA]] | year = 2006 | volume = 295 | issue = 9}}</ref> other forms including [[Potassium iodate|iodate (KIO₃)]] in terms of safety, effectiveness, lack of side effects, and speed of onset, the FDA
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• Activated carbon
  ...[[nitrogen]] gas at 77 [[kelvin|K]] under high [[vacuum]], but in everyday terms activated carbon is perfectly capable of producing the equivalent, by adsor ===Medical applications===
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• Dopamine
  ...edicalnewstoday.com/articles/94023.php ''Dopamine Involved In Aggression - Medical News Today'']</ref> This theory is often discussed in terms of drugs such as [[cocaine]], [[nicotine]], and [[amphetamine]]s, which dir
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• Caffeine citrate
  ...trate''' (Cafcit) is a [[citrate]] salt of [[caffeine]], sometimes used in medical treatment, including short-term treatment of [[apnea of prematurity]] ([[ap ...1:2. It is therefore generally recommended that caffeine is prescribed in terms of caffeine base, and not caffeine citrate.
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• Ibuprofen
  ...of Essential Medicines|Essential Drugs List]]", which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic health care system.<ref name="essentialWHO">{{Cite web ...considered the maximum daily dose for over-the-counter use, though under [[medical direction]], the maximum amount of ibuprofen for adults is 800 milligrams p
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• Epinephrine
  ...epinephrine''. The term ''epinephrine'' is often shortened to '''epi''' in medical jargon.<ref name="isbn0-89262-438-8">{{cite book |author= Gail Askew and Ma ...muscle.<ref name="sabyasachi">{{cite book |author=Sabyasachi Sircar |title=Medical Physiology |publisher=Thieme Publishing Group |location= |year=2007 |pages=
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• Morphine
  ...ith integral needle for immediate use. From WWII. On display at the [[Army Medical Services Museum]].]] ...[asphyxia]] and death by respiratory depression if the person does not get medical attention or an antidote ([[naloxone]]) immediately.<ref name=Duldner>[http
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• Diazepam
  ...w.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2006/MB_cgi?mode=&term=Diazepam|title=Diazepam|work=Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)|publisher= National Library of Medicine|accessdate= ...of Essential Medicines|Essential Drugs List]]", which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic health care system.<ref name="essentialWHO">{{cite web |
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• Locoweed
  ...ck poisoned by chronic ingestion of large amounts of swainsonine develop a medical condition known as '''locoism''' (also '''swainsonine disease''',<ref name= |title=Vocabulario Vaquero/cowboy Talk: A Dictionary Of Spanish Terms From The American West
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• Acokanthera
  ...George M. | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Dictionary of New Medical Terms | publisher = Bailliere Tindall & Cox | date = 1905 | location = London | p
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• Airspeed Oxford
  [[File:Royal Air Force Medical Services, 1939-1945. CH2171.jpg|thumb|A patient and attendant on board an O In terms of flying experience, the Oxford was suitably representative as to enable p
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• Temazepam
  ...em|CNS]] depression, and include [[somnolence]], [[dizziness]], [[Fatigue (medical)|fatigue]], [[ataxia]], [[headache]], [[lethargy]], impairment of [[memory] There are rare reports in the medical literature of psychotic states developing after abrupt withdrawal from benz
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...lphabetically. Previous English encyclopedias had generally listed related terms separately in their alphabetical order, rather like a modern technical dict ...lack selected for its editor Dr. [[Thomas Stewart Traill]], a professor of medical jurisprudence at Edinburgh University. When Dr. Traill fell ill, he was ass
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• Superabsorbent polymer
  ...horticultural. With the added strength of the acrylamide monomer, used as medical spill control, wire & cable waterblocking * Medical waste solidification<ref>[http://www.creativechemistry.com/]</ref>
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• Polymer
  ...n definition. (see [[Jöns Jacob Berzelius#New chemical terms|New chemical terms]])
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• Colloid
  ...] or [[viscosity]] (e.g., a sauce).Hydrocolloid-based [[dressing (medical)|medical dressing]]s are used for [[skin]] and [[wound]] treatment. ...nosine triphosphate|ATP]]. Furthermore, [[life]] itself was explainable in terms of the aggregate properties of all the colloidal substances that make up an
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• Depleted uranium
  .... Civilian uses include counterweights in aircraft, radiation shielding in medical [[radiation therapy]] and industrial [[radiography]] equipment, and contain The actual acute and chronic toxicity of DU is also a point of medical controversy. Multiple studies using cultured cells and laboratory rodents
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• Textile
  ...produce long strands.<ref>{{cite web | title = An Introduction to Textile Terms | rk = The Textile Museum | url = http://www.textilemuseum.org/PDFs/Texti ...s synonyms for ''textile''. However, there are subtle differences in these terms in specialized usage. ''Textile'' refers to any material made of interlacin
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