BROMIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bromide mean? 

• BROMIDE (noun)
  The noun BROMIDE has 2 senses:

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

2. a trite or obvious remark

  Familiarity information: BROMIDE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROMIDE (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A trite or obvious remark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

banality; bromide; cliche; commonplace; platitude

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)

 Context examples 

The bromide salt form of methscopolamine, a quaternary ammonium derivative of scopolamine with anticholinergic properties.

(Methscopolamine Bromide, NCI Thesaurus)

Ethidium bromide and chloride are toxic substances and potent noncompetitive antagonists of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.

(Homidium Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Methylnaltrexone bromide binds to opioid receptors outside the brain and may block the side effects of opioid drugs without affecting their ability to relieve pain.

(Methylnaltrexone bromide, NCI Dictionary)

The bromide salt form of pancuronium, a synthetic, long-acting ammonio steroid muscle relaxant with curarimimetic, some antimuscarinic and sympathomimetic effects.

(Pancuronium Bromide, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic radiopaque liquid form of perfluorooctyl bromide.

(Perflubron, NCI Thesaurus)

An immunotherapeutic agent consisting of a plasmid DNA encoding human Interleukin-2 (IL-2) complexed with a cationic lipid, 1,2-dimyristyloxypropyl-3-dimethyl-hydroxyethyl ammonium bromide/dioleyl-phosphatidyl-ethanolamine (DMRIE/DOPE), in a 5:1 ratio.

(IL-2 Plasmid DNA/Lipid Complex, NCI Thesaurus)

As a reagent for peptide mapping and amino acid sequence analysis, cyanogen bromide hydrolyzes peptide bonds at methionine residues in peptides and proteins.

(Cyanogen Bromide, NCI Thesaurus)

Ethylene dibromide is used as a chemical intermediate in the synthesis of resins, waxes, gums, dyes and pharmaceuticals and is used to produce vinyl bromide.

(Ethylene Dibromide, NCI Thesaurus)

A hydrocarbon compound consisting of carbons with one or more bromide atom incorporated in its structure that can increase the risk of human cancer.

(Carcinogenic Brominated Hydrocarbon, NCI Thesaurus)

An orally available bromide salt form of butylscopolamine, a quaternary ammonium derivative of the alkaloid scopolamine, with anticholinergic property.

(Butylscopolamine Bromide, NCI Thesaurus)