euthanasiate
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
euthanasiate (plural euthanasiates)
- (veterinary medicine) Any drug used to euthanize an animal.
- 1990, Gary Martinic, “euthanasia of laboratory animals”, in Animal Technology:
- That chemical methods of euthanasia (such as injectable euthanasiates such as barbituates) far outweighed all other methods used to perform euthanasia of laboratory animals.
- 2005, Jon Haner, Andrew Tribe, “Management of critically ill wildlife: the reality and practice of wildlife euthanasia”, in National Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference:
- The Environmental Health Unit of Queensland Health has issued appropriately trained wildlife carers in two organisations with authority to hold and use a small selection of restricted (S4) veterinary drugs including: Pentabarbitone sodium (Valabarb, Lethabarb): a veterinary euthanasiate; Alfaxalone and Zoletil: anaesthetics; Diazepam (Pamlin): a sedative; Meloxicam: an antiinflammatory pain reliever.
- 2012, Australian Veternary Association, Indigenous Community Animal Health Program (ICAHP) Model and Guidelines:
- At all times the euthanasiates should be in a locked container/area when not in the possession of a veterinarian
Verb[edit]
euthanasiate (third-person singular simple present euthanasiates, present participle euthanasiating, simple past and past participle euthanasiated)
- (veterinary medicine) To kill in a humane manner.
- 2000, Hiroshi Koie, Ester Norie Kurotobi, Takeo Sakai, “Double-chambered right ventricle in a dog”, in Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, volume 6:
- The dog was euthanasiated 40 days after the MRI examination because its convulsions had worsened.
- 2008, B. Sevastre, C. Cătoi, A.I. Marcus, “LESIONAL ASPECTS IN RAT EXPERIMENTAL ASBESTOSIS”, in Bulletin of University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania:
- The experiment was carried out 240 days long, on Wistar rats, intraperitoneally injected once with aqueous asbestos suspension. In the end, animals were euthanasiated by prolonged narcosis.
- 2009, V Rus, V Miclaus, GC Nadas, D Cadar, “STRUCTURAL PARTICULARITIES OF THE WHITE STORK (CICONIA CICONIA) ESOPHAGUS.”, in Annals of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology, volume 14, number 1:
- On a stork whit multiple fractures which was later euthanasiated, some anatomic and histology observation were made on the esophagus.