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euthanasiate en · NOUN

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1. Any drug used to euthanize an animal.
   • At all times the euthanasiates should be in a locked container/area when not in the possession of a veterinarian 2012, Australian Veternary Association, Indigenous Community Animal Health Program (ICAHP) Model and Guidelines:
   • That chemical methods of euthanasia (such as injectable euthanasiates such as barbituates) far outweighed all other methods used to perform euthanasia of laboratory animals. 1990, Gary Martinic, “euthanasia of laboratory animals”, in Animal Technology:
   • 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. 2005, Jon Haner, Andrew Tribe, “Management of critically ill wildlife: the reality and practice of wildlife euthanasia”, in National Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference:

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euthanasiate en · VERB

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1. To kill in a humane manner.
   • 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. 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:
   • On a stork whit multiple fractures which was later euthanasiated, some anatomic and histology observation were made on the esophagus. 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:
   • The dog was euthanasiated 40 days after the MRI examination because its convulsions had worsened. 2000, Hiroshi Koie, Ester Norie Kurotobi, Takeo Sakai, “Double-chambered right ventricle in a dog”, in Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, volume 6:

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euthanatize · euthanise · euthanize