ANTIDIARRHEAL DRUG

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A drug used to control or stop diarrhea

Synonyms:

antidiarrheal; antidiarrheal drug

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)