0 avoiding excitement or great activity and usually calm and relaxed: --
1 to cause a person or animal to be very calm or go to sleep by giving them a drug: --
2 calm and controlled, and often traditional in habit or manner: --
Some relatives were also pleased with the fact that patients were less sedated than with previous medication.
The patient remains awake, although sedated, and able to follow instructions.
The 5 patients who were sedated for prior angiography were easily arousable, responsive and communicative.
The patient was sedated and was breathing room air throughout the study.
Their sedate socialism embraced democracy unconditionally, having experienced first-hand the pain of its loss.
All babies had been previously sedated with chloral hydrate (50 mg/kg).
Nor was pain resulting from wounds invariably sedated.
Parenteral narcotics are too sedating to be relied on for most parturients.
