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long-acting en · ADJ
Meanings
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Having a pharmaceutical effect principally in the long term.
I have tried all the medium and short acting non-barbiturate sedatives since the war (including thalidomide) but they don’t work and I don’t trust the newfangled long acting, “safe” analgesics.
1988, E[dward] J[ames] Moran Campbell, Not Always on the Level, [London]: British Medical Journal, →ISBN, page 194:
Forms
Antonyms
short-acting
Coordinates
ultra-long-acting · ultra-short-acting