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Lidocaine

"Lidocaine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A local anesthetic and cardiac depressant used as an antiarrhythmia agent. Its actions are more intense and its effects more prolonged than those of PROCAINE but its duration of action is shorter than that of BUPIVACAINE or PRILOCAINE.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Lidocaine" by people in this website by year, and whether "Lidocaine" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 38 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2009
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