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antihystamine

antihystamine is the misspelling of antihistamine.

Meaning of antihistamine

Noun

antihistamine (plural antihistamines)

  1. A drug that counteracts the effects of a histamine. Commonly used to alleviate the symptoms of hay fever and other allergies.
    • Perhaps the most striking method of demonstrating the effect of antihistamine substances is to use them to protect guinea-pigs against the action of histamine sprayed into the air from an atomizer.1946 December, British journal of pharmacology and chemotherapy, volume 1, number 4, page 278
    Synonyms:
    antihistaminic

Questions about antihystamine

What is antihystamine the misspelling of?
Antihystamine is the misspelling of antihistamine.

Words near antihystamine in the dictionary

  1. antihypotension
  2. antihypotensive
  3. antihypotensives
  4. antihypothetical
  5. antihypouricemic
  6. antihystamine
  7. antihysteric
  8. antihysterical
  9. antihysterics
  10. antihæmorrhagic
  11. antiidiotype

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