tramadol
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tramadol
First recorded in 1965–70; of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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Although earlier systematic reviews have included tramadol, none offered a broad evaluation of both its effectiveness and safety across different types of chronic pain.
From Science Daily • Dec. 25, 2025
Doctors welcomed the reduction in the use of tramadol, pregabalin, and diazepam, but they also stressed that more needed to be done to ensure people could access other pain treatments more quickly.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024
The court said the judges ruled “the UCI’s in-competition ban on tramadol was for medical rather than doping reasons and was therefore within the UCI’s power and jurisdiction.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2022
The paper was funded by Grünenthal GmbH of Germany, a company that signed a deal in May 2018 to allow Mundipharma to market and distribute its tramadol product, Tramal, in China.
From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2019
The following year, Food for the Poor sent to Guatemala a shipment of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin and the painkiller tramadol that it valued at $553,627—but whose value “using appropriate international prices” was “less than $46,000.”
From Slate • May 10, 2018
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