xylazine
/ˈzaɪləziːn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A potent α₂-adrenergic agonist used for sedation, anesthesia, and analgesia in large nonhuman mammals, and as an adulterant in street drugs.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "After 15, 30, 60 or 90 days, the animals (n = 5 per time point for each subgroup) were sacrificed via an overdose of ketamine and xylazine hydrochloride (Vetbrands Brazil Limited, Jacareí, SP), and the hemimaxillae were removed and fixed in 10% formalin solution (Fig 1 )."
- "The user had a hunch that there was fentanyl in the powder but feared the presence of xylazine, a dangerous animal tranquilizer that can leave oozing wounds on limbs."
- "In her shattered Philadelphia neighborhood, and increasingly in drug hot zones around the country, an animal tranquilizer called xylazine — known by street names like “tranq,” “tranq dope” and “zombie drug” — is being used to bulk up illicit fentanyl, making its impact even more devastating."