A synthetic compound used as a painkilling drug, especially for women in labour.
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Example sentencesExamples
Midazolam and pethidine were used for conscious sedation as needed.
Pain was treated with oral paracetamol, intravenous pethidine, or tramadol.
Those who were allocated an epidural had no more back pain in the year after delivery than controls who received intramuscular pethidine.
The court heard he had been injecting himself in the arms and legs for six months with pethidine, a pain-relieving drug normally given to women in labour.
He looked pretty sick, so I started treatment with intravenous fluids and antibiotics, followed by pethidine, which made him doze off for a while.
Origin
1940s: from p(iper)idine (from which the drug is derived), with the insertion of eth(yl).