KAOPECTATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Trade name for a fixed-combination antidiarrheal drug that use kaolin as the adsorbent and pectin as the emollient

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

antidiarrheal; antidiarrheal drug (a drug used to control or stop diarrhea)

Meronyms (substance of "Kaopectate"):

china clay; china stone; kaolin; kaoline; porcelain clay; terra alba (a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper))

pectin (any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams)