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Noun: muscle relaxant
  1. A drug that reduces muscle contractility by blocking the transmission of nerve impulses or by decreasing the excitability of the motor end plate or by other actions
    "The doctor prescribed a muscle relaxant to ease the patient's back spasms"

Derived forms: muscle relaxants

Type of: relaxant

Encyclopedia: Muscle relaxant