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ANTIDIARRHEAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A drug used to control or stop diarrhea
Synonyms:
antidiarrheal; antidiarrheal drug
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("antidiarrheal" is a kind of...):
medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "antidiarrheal"):
Kaopectate (trade name for a fixed-combination antidiarrheal drug that use kaolin as the adsorbent and pectin as the emollient)
Lomotil (trade name of an antidiarrheal)
Context examples:
The sulfate salt form of codeine, a naturally occurring phenanthrene alkaloid and opioid agonist with analgesic, antidiarrheal and antitussive activity.
(Codeine Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)
A clay compound consisting of aluminosilicate and calcium ions with potential antidiarrheal activity.
(Calcium Aluminosilicate Anti-Diarrheal, NCI Thesaurus)
