BAYER (bayer)

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Irregular inflected form: bayer   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bayer mean? 

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

1. the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAYER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

acetylsalicylic acid; aspirin; Bayer; Empirin; St. Joseph

Hypernyms ("Bayer" is a kind of...):

analgesic; anodyne; pain pill; painkiller (a medicine used to relieve pain)

salicylate (a salt of salicylic acid (included in several commonly used drugs))

Meronyms (substance of "Bayer"):

2-hydroxybenzoic acid; salicylic acid (a white crystalline substance with a bitter aftertaste; used as a fungicide or in making aspirin or dyes or perfumes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Bayer"):

aspirin powder; headache powder (a powdered form of aspirin)

buffered aspirin; Bufferin (aspirin coated with a substance capable of neutralizing acid (trade name Bufferin))

enteric-coated aspirin (aspirin that is treated to pass through the stomach unaltered and to dissolve in the intestines)

Domain usage:

trade name (a name given to a product or service)

trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)

 Context examples 

Domeboro solution is a commercial preparation of modified Burow's solution, (5% aluminum acetate) by Bayer.

(Domeboro Solution, NCI Thesaurus)