medicinal drug

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medicinal drug - (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of diseasemedicament, medication, medicineacyclovir, Zovirax - an oral antiviral drug (trade name Zovirax) used to treat genital herpes; does not cure the disease but relieves the symptomsalendronate, Fosamax - a tablet (trade name Fosamax) prescribed to prevent or treat osteoporosis in women after menopauseallopurinol, Zyloprim - a drug (trade name Zyloprim) used to treat gout and other conditions in which there is an excessive buildup of uric acidamrinone, Inocor - a drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure; increases strength of contraction of myocardiumanalgesic, anodyne, pain pill, painkiller - a medicine used to relieve painangiogenesis inhibitor - a drug that is designed to prevent the growth of blood vessels that nourish tumorsantiarrhythmic, antiarrhythmic drug, antiarrhythmic medication - a drug used to treat an abnormal heart rhythmantibacterial, antibacterial drug, bactericide - any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growthanticholinergic, anticholinergic drug - a substance that opposes or blocks the action of acetylcholineanticholinesterase - a medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effectanticoagulant, anticoagulant medication, decoagulant - medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of bloodanticonvulsant, anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic, antiepileptic drug - a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy)antidepressant, antidepressant drug - any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effectsantidiabetic, antidiabetic drug - a drug used to treat diabetes mellitusantidiarrheal, antidiarrheal drug - a drug used to control or stop diarrheaantidiuretic, antidiuretic drug - a drug that limits the formation of urineantiemetic, antiemetic drug - a drug that prevents or alleviates nausea and vomitingantihistamine - a medicine used to treat allergies and hypersensitive reactions and colds; works by counteracting the effects of histamine on a receptor siteantihypertensive, antihypertensive drug - a drug that reduces high blood pressureanti-inflammatory, anti-inflammatory drug - a medicine intended to reduce inflammationantiprotozoal, antiprotozoal drug - a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoaantipyretic, febrifuge - any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate feverantiseptic - a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissuesantispasmodic, antispasmodic agent, spasmolytic - a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles)antitussive - any medicine used to suppress or relieve coughingantiviral, antiviral agent, antiviral drug - any drug that destroys virusesAPC - a drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (aspirin and phenacetin and caffeine)astringent, astringent drug, styptic - a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canalsatomic cocktail - an oral dose of radioactive substance used in treatment and diagnosis of cancerazathioprine, Imuran - an immunosuppressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organblocking agent, blocker - a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological processbronchodilator - a drug that relaxes and dilates the bronchial passageways and improves the passages of air into the lungscalcium blocker, calcium-channel blocker - any of a class of drugs that block the flow of the electrolyte calcium (either in nerve cell conduction or smooth muscle contraction of the heart); has been used in the treatment of angina or arrhythmia or hypertension or migrainecarminative - medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passingAtromid-S, clofibrate - a drug (trade name Atromid-S) that reduces lipids in the blood serum; used to treat some cardiovascular diseasesclopidogrel bisulfate, Plavix - a blood thinner (trade name Plavix) approved for the treatment of mild heart attacks; works by preventing blood platelets from sticking together to form clots that would restrict blood flowcold medicine - medicine intended to relieve the symptoms of the common cold