But because GHB can suppress breathing, overdoses can cause coma or death.

It was the silent, suppressed breathing of something livingwhether animal or mancreeping ever nearer.

This often results in increased sedation, impaired motor coordination, suppressed breathing, and other adverse effects that have potential to be lethal.

Tests of body tissue revealed the muscle relaxant Pavulon, which suppresses natural breathing, in 6 of the bodies.

(Opioids can suppress breathing.)

They are sedatives and suppress breathing.

Playing dead suppresses breathing and can trick careless foes, with the downside of vulnerability.

Pure local anesthesia or local anesthesia combined with a single mild sedative, like a low dose of Valium or inhaled nitrous oxide, is generally very safe, although overzealous dosing can suppress breathing.

Unlike patients who receive general anesthesia, which can suppress breathing, he did not need to be put on a respirator or have a breathing tube inserted into his throat.