pancuronium Pharm.
(pænkjʊˈrəʊnɪəm)
[f. pan-, of uncertain etym. + curare + -onium.]
A steroid whose bromide is used as a neuromuscular blocking agent.
| 1967 Brit. Jrnl. Anæsthesia XXXIX. 775/1 Pancuronium bromide (NA97), was first synthesized in 1964 by Hewett and Savage (1966, personal communication). 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 17 June 1-D/6 Many of the breathing failures at the hospital were caused when unknown assailants injected patients with a potentially lethal muscle-paralyzing drug, pancuronium bromide. 1976 Lancet 18 Dec. 1334/1 One group of eight patients received general anæsthesia with thiopenthone, suxamethonium chloride, pancuronium bromide or gallamine, and enflurane (‘Ethrane’) with nitrous oxide plus oxygen. |