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Descriptor English: Tranquilizing Agents
Descriptor Spanish: Tranquilizantes
Descriptor tranquilizantes
Entry term(s) agentes tranquilizantes
ataráxicos
Scope note: Grupo tradicional de drogas que se dice que tienen un efecto confortante o calmante sobre el ánimo, pensamiento, o comportamiento. Se incluyen los AGENTES ANTI-ANSIEDAD (tranquilizantes menores), los AGENTES ANTIMANÍACOS, y los AGENTES ANTIPSICÓTICOS (tranquilizantes mayores). Estas drogas actúan por mecanismos diferentes y se utilizan con diferentes fines terapéuticos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Tranquilizantes
Descriptor French: Tranquillisants
Entry term(s): Agents, Tranquilizing
Agents, Tranquillizing
Ataractics
Drugs, Tranquilizing
Drugs, Tranquillizing
Effect, Tranquilizing
Effects, Tranquilizing
Tranquilizing Drugs
Tranquilizing Effect
Tranquilizing Effects
Tranquillizing Agents
Tranquillizing Drugs
Tree number(s): D27.505.696.277.950
D27.505.954.427.210.950
D27.505.954.427.700.872
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014149
Scope note: A traditional grouping of drugs said to have a soothing or calming effect on mood, thought, or behavior. Included here are the ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS (minor tranquilizers), ANTIMANIC AGENTS, and the ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS (major tranquilizers). These drugs act by different mechanisms and are used for different therapeutic purposes.
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; note entry term TRANQUILIZING EFFECT: use only for the tranquilizing effect of a chemical substance
Allowable Qualifiers: AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AG agonists
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
Related: Hypnotics and Sedatives MeSH
DeCS ID: 14541
Unique ID: D014149
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2011/06/24
Tranquilizing Agents - Preferred
Concept UI M0021769
Scope note A traditional grouping of drugs said to have a soothing or calming effect on mood, thought, or behavior. Included here are the ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS (minor tranquilizers), ANTIMANIC AGENTS, and the ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS (major tranquilizers). These drugs act by different mechanisms and are used for different therapeutic purposes.
Preferred term Tranquilizing Agents
Entry term(s) Agents, Tranquilizing
Agents, Tranquillizing
Ataractics
Drugs, Tranquilizing
Drugs, Tranquillizing
Tranquilizing Drugs
Tranquillizing Agents
Tranquillizing Drugs
Tranquilizing Effect - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0556130
Preferred term Tranquilizing Effect
Entry term(s) Effect, Tranquilizing
Effects, Tranquilizing
Tranquilizing Effects



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