ANTIDIARRHEAL DRUG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antidiarrheal drug mean? 

• ANTIDIARRHEAL DRUG (noun)
  The noun ANTIDIARRHEAL DRUG has 1 sense:

1. a drug used to control or stop diarrhea

  Familiarity information: ANTIDIARRHEAL DRUG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTIDIARRHEAL DRUG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A drug used to control or stop diarrhea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

antidiarrheal; antidiarrheal drug

Hypernyms ("antidiarrheal drug" 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 "antidiarrheal drug"):

Kaopectate (trade name for a fixed-combination antidiarrheal drug that use kaolin as the adsorbent and pectin as the emollient)

Lomotil (trade name of an antidiarrheal)