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ANTIDIARRHEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antidiarrheal mean? 

ANTIDIARRHEAL (noun)
  The noun ANTIDIARRHEAL has 1 sense:

1. a drug used to control or stop diarrheaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ANTIDIARRHEAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A drug used to control or stop diarrhea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

antidiarrheal; antidiarrheal drug

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 


A piperidine derivate, chemically related to narcotic meperidine with antidiarrheal activity and devoid of central nervous system (CNS) activity.

(Diphenoxylate, NCI Thesaurus)

A phenylpiperidine with antidiarrheal activity and active metabolite of diphenoxylate.

(Difenoxin Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrochloride salt form of diphenoxylate, a piperidine derivate, chemically related to narcotic meperidine, with antidiarrheal activity and devoid of central nervous system (CNS) activity.

(Diphenoxylate Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2) analogue with potential antidiarrheal and intestinotrophic activities.

(Elsiglutide, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrochloride salt form of loperamide, a synthetic, piperidine derivative and opioid agonist with antidiarrheal activity.

(Loperamide hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

A phenylpiperidine with antidiarrheal activity and an active metabolite of diphenoxylate.

(Difenoxin, NCI Thesaurus)

An opium tincture with antidiarrheal activity.

(Deodorized Tincture of Opium, NCI Thesaurus)

A naturally occurring phenanthrene alkaloid and opioid agonist with analgesic, antidiarrheal and antitussive activities.

(Codeine, NCI Thesaurus)

Codeine phosphate is a type of opiate, a type of analgesic agent, a type of antitussive agent, and a type of antidiarrheal agent.

(Codeine phosphate, NCI Dictionary)

The phosphate salt of codeine, a naturally occurring phenanthrene alkaloid and opioid agonist with analgesic, antidiarrheal and antitussive activities.

(Codeine phosphate, NCI Thesaurus)



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