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ANTICHOLINESTERASE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anticholinesterase mean?
• ANTICHOLINESTERASE (noun)
The noun ANTICHOLINESTERASE has 1 sense:
1. a medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect
Familiarity information: ANTICHOLINESTERASE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("anticholinesterase" 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 "anticholinesterase"):
neostigmine; Prostigmin (a cholinergic drug (trade name Prostigmin) used to treat some ophthalmic conditions and to treat myasthenia gravis)
Context examples
The hydrobromide salt form of galantamine, a tertiary alkaloid obtained synthetically or naturally from the bulbs and flowers of Narcissus and several other genera of the Amaryllidaceae family with anticholinesterase and neurocognitive-enhancing activities.
(Galantamine Hydrobromide, NCI Thesaurus)
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