KAOPECTATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kaopectate mean? 

• KAOPECTATE (noun)
  The noun KAOPECTATE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: KAOPECTATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KAOPECTATE (noun)

Sense 1

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)

 Context examples 

A natural clay-like mineral mixture of hydrated aluminum silicate containing magnesium, adsorbent Attapulgite (kaopectate) acts locally in the intestines to adsorb bacteria and toxins; reduce water loss; and treat diarrhea.

(Attapulgite, NCI Thesaurus)