PHENIRAMINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pheniramine mean? 

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

1. an antihistamine used in preparations to treat allergies and respiratory infections; used to treat rhinitis and skin rashes and pruritus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHENIRAMINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An antihistamine used in preparations to treat allergies and respiratory infections; used to treat rhinitis and skin rashes and pruritus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

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 

Pheniramine maleate binds to histamine H1 receptors, thereby inhibiting phospholipase A2 and production of endothelium-derived relaxing factor, nitric oxide.

(Pheniramine Maleate, NCI Thesaurus)

The maleate salt form of pheniramine, an alkylamine derivative with antihistaminic and vasodilatory properties.

(Pheniramine Maleate, NCI Thesaurus)