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ANTIDOTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does antidote mean?
• ANTIDOTE (noun)
The noun ANTIDOTE has 1 sense:
1. a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison
Familiarity information: ANTIDOTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
antidote; counterpoison
Hypernyms ("antidote" is a kind of...):
curative; cure; remedy; therapeutic (a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "antidote"):
atropine (a poisonous crystalline alkaloid extracted from the nightshade family; used as an antispasmodic and to dilate the eye pupil; also administered in large amounts as an antidote for organophosphate nerve agents or organophosphate insecticides)
obidoxime chloride (a chloride used as an antidote for nerve gases such as sarin or VX)
Context examples
A metal chelating agent that is used as an antidote in arsenic, gold, lead, mercury and other heavy metal poisoning.
(Dimercaprol, NCI Thesaurus)
Fomepizole is indicated for use as an antidote in ethylene glycol and methanol poisoning.
(Fomepizole, NCI Thesaurus)
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The commercially available antidote is a polyvalent antivenom which, when injected into the bloodstream, is expected to neutralise neurotoxic (toxic to nerves) or cytotoxic (toxic to cells) venom.
(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)
The sodium salt of leucovorin, an active metabolite of folic acid, used as an antidote to folic acid antagonists.
(Leucovorin Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)
A derivative of folic acid with chemoprotectant, antidote and synergistic activity.
(Leucovorin, NCI Thesaurus)
Antimuscarinic drugs are used as antiarrhythmic, antiparkinson, antiasthmatic, and antispasmodic agents, as well as antidote of the natural mushroom alkaloid muscarine (Amanita muscaria) or to prevent parasympathetic stimulation at neuroeffector junctions.
(Antimuscarinic Agent, NCI Thesaurus)
Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson, said he; and I have a piece of work for us both to-night which, if we can bring it to a successful conclusion, will in itself justify a man’s life on this planet.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He held up a little silver whistle, as he remarked:—"That old place may be full of rats, and if so, I've got an antidote on call."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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