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antiopiate

antiopiate adjective: counteracting an opiate.

Adjective

antiopiate (not comparable)

  1. Counteracting an opiate.
    • That is, the location of heroin use can serve as a conditioned stimulus for the antiopiate response. When the user injects the drug in a different location, the well-developed antiopiate response does not occur […]2000, Lester A. Lefton, Psychology

Noun

antiopiate (plural antiopiates)

  1. A drug that has an antiopiate effect.
    • Cholestyramine, however, may exert effects different from decreasing the enterohepatic circulation of bile acids including the release of endogenous antiopiates (e.g., cholecystokinin) that may result in a decrease in the perception of pruritus.2012, C. J. Hawkey, Jaime Bosch, Joel E. Richter, Textbook of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, page 78

Forms of antiopiate

pluralantiopiates

Origin of antiopiate

From anti- + opiate.

Questions about antiopiate

What does antiopiate mean?
Antiopiate means counteracting an opiate.
What part of speech is antiopiate?
Antiopiate can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antiopiate in the dictionary

  1. antiopelmous
  2. antiopera
  3. antioperas
  4. antiophidian
  5. antiophidic
  6. antiopiate
  7. antiopiates
  8. antiopium
  9. antiopiumist
  10. antiopiumists
  11. antiopposition

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