PHENYLTOLOXAMINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phenyltoloxamine mean? 

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

1. antihistamine included in some preparations used to treat coughing and nasal congestion

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHENYLTOLOXAMINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Antihistamine included in some preparations used to treat coughing and nasal congestion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

antihistamine (a medicine used to treat allergies and hypersensitive reactions and colds; works by counteracting the effects of histamine on a receptor site)

 Context examples 

Phenyltoloxamine blocks H1 histamine receptors, thereby inhibiting phospholipase A2 and production of endothelium-derived relaxing factor, nitric oxide.

(Phenyltoloxamine, NCI Thesaurus)