BROMIDE

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A trite or obvious remark

Synonyms:

banality; bromide; cliche; commonplace; platitude

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

comment; input; remark (a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information)

truism (an obvious truth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

halide (a salt of any halogen acid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bromide"):

hydrogen bromide (a colorless gas that yields hydrobromic acid in solution with water)

methyl bromide (a poisonous gas or liquid (CH3Br) used to fumigate rodents, worms, etc.)

silver bromide (a bromide that darkens when exposed to light; used in making photographic emulsions)

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Context examples:

The bromide salt form of methylnaltrexone, a methyl derivative of noroxymorphone with selective, peripherally-acting mu-opioid receptor antagonistic activity.

(Methylnaltrexone bromide, NCI Thesaurus)

A combination formulation containing the hydrochloride salt form of the benzodiazepine chlordiazepoxide and the bromide salt form of the quaternary ammonium antimuscarinic clidinium with anxiolytic, sedative and antispasmodic activities.

(Chlordiazepoxide Hydrochloride/Clidinium Bromide, NCI Thesaurus)

The bromide salt form of demecarium, a quaternary ammonium compound and a long-acting cholinesterase inhibitor with parasympathomimetic activity.

(Demecarium Bromide, NCI Thesaurus)

The bromide salt form of ipratropium, a synthetic derivative of the alkaloid atropine with anticholinergic properties.

(Ipratropium Bromide, NCI Thesaurus)

"I grant that as authorities to quote they are most excellent—the two foremost literary critics in the United States. Every school teacher in the land looks up to Vanderwater as the Dean of American criticism. Yet I read his stuff, and it seems to me the perfection of the felicitous expression of the inane. Why, he is no more than a ponderous bromide, thanks to Gelett Burgess. And Praps is no better. His 'Hemlock Mosses,' for instance is beautifully written. Not a comma is out of place; and the tone—ah!—is lofty, so lofty. He is the best-paid critic in the United States. Though, Heaven forbid! he's not a critic at all. They do criticism better in England.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A compound with carcinogenic activity that has a carbon-based backbone that may be a cyclic or non-cyclic structure with single, double or triple bonds and can have other elements besides hydrogen incorporated in its structure but has at least one halogen (chloride, bromide, fluoride, iodide, and astatine) atom substituted for one of the hydrogen atoms.

(Organo-halide Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)

Molecules with carcinogenic activity that almost entirely consist of carbon and hydrogen that may be cyclic or non-cyclic structures with single, double bonds or both but have at least one halogen element (chloride, bromide, fluoride, iodide, astatine) atom substituted for one of the hydrogen atoms.

(Carcinogenic Halogenated Hydrocarbon, NCI Thesaurus)

Pancuronium bromide competitively binds to the nicotinic receptor at the neuromuscular junction, thereby preventing acetylcholine binding and resulting in skeletal muscle relaxation and paralysis.

(Pancuronium Bromide, NCI Thesaurus)

In molecular biology, the bromide salt of ethidium is used to detect and visualize DNA after electrophoresis or in cytochemical preparations.

(Homidium Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Methylnaltrexone bromide is a type of peripheral opioid receptor antagonist.