Bromide slang

Bromide in literary usage means a phrase, cliché, or platitude that is trite or unoriginal. It can be intended to soothe or placate; it can suggest insincerity or a lack of originality in the speaker. Bromide can also mean a commonplace or tiresome person, a bore (a person who speaks in bromides).

1. What does bromide mean urban?
2. What is feel good bromides?
3. What is an example of bromides in a sentence?
4. What is a bromide and use?
5. Is bromide a drug?
6. Is bromine a drug?
7. What happens if you drink bromide?
8. What is bromide used on soldiers?
9. What does bromide smell like?
10. What is bromide for soldiers?
11. What is a bromide in Japan?
12. Why did people take bromide?
13. What does Derr mean slang?
14. What class of drug is bromide?
15. What happens if you take bromide?
16. What happens if you drink bromide?

What does bromide mean urban?

a person who is platitudinous and boring. [1830–40; brom- + -ide; in defs. 3, 4 from use of some bromides as sedatives] Word Frequency.

What is feel good bromides?

2[countable] an idea or remark that is intended to make someone feel calmer or more comfortable, but that is not original and has no effect Feel-good bromides can create the illusion of problem solving.

What is an example of bromides in a sentence?

His speech had nothing more to offer than the usual bromides about how everyone needs to work together.

What is a bromide and use?

Bromide ordinarily is used in patients with seizure disorders that have been refractory to phenobarbital. Usually, patients are treated with both phenobarbital and bromide. However, some patients have been treated with bromide as a single therapy for epilepsy.

Is bromide a drug?

Bromide is a type of medication used to treat severe epilepsy, particularly causing myoclonic seizures. Bromide comes in two formulations: triple bromide (contains three different variations of bromide: ammonium bromide, potassium bromide and sodium bromide) and potassium bromide.

Is bromine a drug?

Some bromine-containing compounds were historically used as sedatives (drugs that can make people calm or sleepy). However, these drugs are for the most part no longer found on the market in the United States.

What happens if you drink bromide?

Ingestion of liquid bromine can cause abdominal pain and hemorrhagic gastroenteritis with secondary shock. Signs and symptoms might also include brown discoloration of mucous membranes and the tongue (1, 2).

What is bromide used on soldiers?

Pyridostigmine Bromide (PB) Anti-nerve agent pill used to protect military personnel from death in an attack with the nerve agent soman.

What does bromide smell like?

It is usually shipped as a liquefied gas. At low concentrations, methyl bromide does not have an odor. At high concentrations, it has a musty or fruity smell.

What is bromide for soldiers?

Pyridostigmine Bromide (PB) Anti-nerve agent pill used to protect military personnel from death in an attack with the nerve agent soman. Veterans may have taken these pills.

What is a bromide in Japan?

In Japanese culture, bromide (ブロマイド, buromaido) is a category of commercial photographic portraits of celebrities including geisha, singers, actors and actresses of both stage and film, and sports stars.

Why did people take bromide?

Halogens (Bromine, Iodine, and Chlorine Compounds)

Bromides were historically prescribed as sedative-hypnotics and anticonvulsants in the mid 1800s. They remained the mainstay anticonvulsant therapy until the advent of barbiturates in the 1920s.

What does Derr mean slang?

Sometimes written as derr or durr, der is widely used in colloquial speech or writing as a humorous or mildly sarcastic response to someone who has said something obvious to the point of being considered stupid.

What class of drug is bromide?

Ipratropium bromide, sold under the trade name Atrovent among others, is a type of anticholinergic (SAMA: short acting muscarinic antagonist) medication which opens up the medium and large airways in the lungs. It is used to treat the symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.

What happens if you take bromide?

Ingestion of bromine can cause immediate pain with burning in the mouth, throat and stomach followed by abdominal pain, vomiting and difficulty breathing. The lips and tongue may appear stained with a brown colour.

What happens if you drink bromide?

Ingestion of liquid bromine can cause abdominal pain and hemorrhagic gastroenteritis with secondary shock. Signs and symptoms might also include brown discoloration of mucous membranes and the tongue (1, 2).