ANTISPASMODIC AGENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antispasmodic agent mean? 

• ANTISPASMODIC AGENT (noun)
  The noun ANTISPASMODIC AGENT has 1 sense:

1. a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles)

  Familiarity information: ANTISPASMODIC AGENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTISPASMODIC AGENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

antispasmodic; antispasmodic agent; spasmolytic

Hypernyms ("antispasmodic agent" 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 "antispasmodic agent"):

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)

 Context examples 

Upon oral administration of GIC-1001, this agent may exert its therapeutic effects through the potential mechanisms of action for the trimebutine and sulfonate moieties: The trimebutine moiety can act as a motility enhancer in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, as an antispasmodic agent to reduce colonic spasms, as an agonist of colonic mu and kappa opioid receptors, which could provide an analgesic effect, and blocks sodium channels and the release of a variety of GI peptides, which modulates the activity of visceral afferents.

(Opioid Agonist GIC-1001, NCI Thesaurus)