A form of analgesia accompanied by general quiescence and psychic indifference to environmental stimuli, without loss of consciousness, and produced by the combined administration of a major tranquilizer (neuroleptic) and a narcotic.
Entry Term(s)
Neuroleptoanalgesia
NLM Classification #
WO 200
Public MeSH Note
79; was NEUROLEPTOANALGESIA 1968-78
Online Note
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History Note
79; was NEUROLEPTOANALGESIA 1966-78 (Prov 1966-67)
A form of analgesia accompanied by general quiescence and psychic indifference to environmental stimuli, without loss of consciousness, and produced by the combined administration of a major tranquilizer (neuroleptic) and a narcotic.