ANTICHOLINESTERASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anticholinesterase mean? 

• ANTICHOLINESTERASE (noun)
  The noun ANTICHOLINESTERASE has 1 sense:

1. a medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect

  Familiarity information: ANTICHOLINESTERASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTICHOLINESTERASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("anticholinesterase" 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 "anticholinesterase"):

neostigmine; Prostigmin (a cholinergic drug (trade name Prostigmin) used to treat some ophthalmic conditions and to treat myasthenia gravis)

 Context examples 

The hydrobromide salt form of galantamine, a tertiary alkaloid obtained synthetically or naturally from the bulbs and flowers of Narcissus and several other genera of the Amaryllidaceae family with anticholinesterase and neurocognitive-enhancing activities.

(Galantamine Hydrobromide, NCI Thesaurus)