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What does phencyclidine mean?

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  1. (chemistry) A veterinary anesthetic, used illegally in humans as a hallucinogen
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Padilla was given drugs against his will, believed to be some form of lysergic acid diethylamide or phencyclidine, to act as a sort of truth serum during his interrogations.
Ketamine was derived from phencyclidine in the 1960s for use as a dissociative anesthetic.
Rhabdomyolysis with and without acute renal failure in patients with phencyclidine intoxication.
For instance, it is still recommended that testing panels in the private sector test for phencyclidine, even though prevalence of use in the country is relatively small.
Therefore, individuals displaying dramatic psychotomimetic effects resulting from phencyclidine ingestion should be treated as a psychiatric emergency.
Ketamine, a derivative of phencyclidine hydrochloride, was introduced in the 1960s as a dissociative anesthetic.

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