Medical term:

Miltown



Miltown

 [mil´town]
trademark for a preparation of meprobamate, an antianxiety agent.
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Miltown

(mĭl′toun′)
A trademark for the drug meprobamate.
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meprobamate

A potentially addicting agent that blocks spinal interneurons, which has anticonvulsant, anxiolytic, muscle-relaxing, sedative, hypnotic and tranquilising properties.

Adverse effects
Hypotension, depression of brainstem activity, coma, death.
 
Metabolism
Liver; excreted in urine, stool.

Therapeutic range
5–30 µg/mL.
 
Toxic range
> 60 µg/mL.
 
Specimen
Serum.
 
Method
TLC, GC, colorimetry.
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Miltown®

Meprobamate, see there.
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