muscle relaxant

Questions about muscle relaxant

What does muscle relaxant mean?

muscle relaxant means "a drug that reduces muscle contractility by blocking the transmission of nerve impulses or by decreasing the excitability of the motor end plate or by other actions".

Is muscle relaxant a common word?

muscle relaxant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.