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drug-naive

adj

Etymology

From drug + naive.

  1. derived from nātīvus
  2. borrowed from naïve
  3. compounded as drug-naive — “drug + naive”

Definitions

  1. Lacking tolerance to or dependence on the pharmacological effect of a drug.

    • D-Amphetamine improved information processing but had no effect on inhibitory control in drug-naive controls.
    • To address these issues, they recorded electroencephalographic sleep in 20 drug-naive schizophrenic patients, 20 drug-free but previously medicated schizophrenic patients, and 15 normal controls.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for drug-naive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA