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Ambien
Brand name for the sedative hypnotic drug zolpidem used for sleep. For more information, see: zolpidem
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- Cough suppressant A drug used to control coughing, particularly with a dry, nagging, unproductive cough
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- Heterochromatin, facultative Heterochromatin that need not always be heterochromatic but which has the faculty to return to the normal…
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