Pediatric analgesia and sedation: getting high with nitrous oxide.
1994
F Leonard
UI
MeSH Term
Description
Entries
D009609
Nitrous Oxide
Nitrogen oxide (N2O). A colorless, odorless gas that is used as an anesthetic and analgesic. High concentrations cause a narcotic effect and may replace oxygen, causing death by asphyxia. It is also used as a food aerosol in the preparation of whipping cream.
The pressure that would be exerted by one component of a mixture of gases if it were present alone in a container. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)
June 1991,
Revista de actualidad odontoestomatologica espanola : boletin de informacion, del Ilustre Consejo General de Colegios de Odontologos y Estomatologos de Espana,