WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does withdrawal symptom mean? 

• WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOM (noun)
  The noun WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOM has 1 sense:

1. any physical or psychological disturbance (as sweating or depression) experienced by a drug addict when deprived of the drug

  Familiarity information: WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any physical or psychological disturbance (as sweating or depression) experienced by a drug addict when deprived of the drug

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("withdrawal symptom" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

 Context examples 

Levomethadyl acetate hydrochloride has less severe withdrawal symptoms compared to the morphine-like agents.

(Levomethadyl Acetate Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The clinical course depends on the ability to manage the withdrawal symptoms.

(Abstinence Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Prolonged use may lead to dependence of the morphine type; withdrawal symptoms appear more rapidly than with morphine and are of shorter duration.

(Meperidine hydrochloride, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Administration of nicotine may prevent nicotine craving and may help with the withdrawal symptoms associated with smoking cessation.

(Nicotine lozenge, NCI Thesaurus)

It may affect fetal growth and result in withdrawal symptoms in the term infant.

(In Utero Drug Exposure, NCI Thesaurus)

If dependent users stop heroin, they have withdrawal symptoms.

(Heroin, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

A person with this disease also needs to drink greater amounts to get the same effect and has withdrawal symptoms after stopping alcohol use.

(Alcohol dependence, NCI Dictionary)

Therapy to help control nicotine withdrawal symptoms during tobacco cessation

(Nicotine Replacement, NCI Thesaurus)

If you stop using caffeine, you could get withdrawal symptoms.

(Caffeine, Food and Drug Administration)

A standardized rating scale developed by Wesson and Ling in 2003 to evaluate the severity of an individual's opiate withdrawal symptoms.

(Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)