Anxiolytics, Nonopioid Sedative-Analgesics, and Opioid Analgesics

Equine Anesthesia

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 185-209

  Muir, William W ^a  

^a Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology Consulting Services   (United States)

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