DIMENHYDRINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dimenhydrinate mean? 

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

1. antihistamine and antiemetic (trade name Dramamine) used to treat motion sickness

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIMENHYDRINATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Antihistamine and antiemetic (trade name Dramamine) used to treat motion sickness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dimenhydrinate; Dramamine

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

antiemetic; antiemetic drug (a drug that prevents or alleviates nausea and vomiting)

antihistamine (a medicine used to treat allergies and hypersensitive reactions and colds; works by counteracting the effects of histamine on a receptor site)

 Context examples 

Dimenhydrinate competitively blocks H1 receptors, thereby preventing the actions of histamine on bronchial smooth muscle, capillaries and gastrointestinal (GI) smooth muscle.

(Dimenhydrinate, NCI Thesaurus)