a bronchodilator (trade names Ventolin or Proventil) used for asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions; available in oral or inh…
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Ephedrine
white odorless powdered or crystalline alkaloid from plants of the genus Ephedra (especially Ephedra sinica) or made synthetically; used as a bronchodilator to treat bronchitis and asthma
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a bronchodilator (trade name Alupent) used to treat asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions; available in oral or inhalant form…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine, Pulmonology.a theophylline derivative that is used as a bronchodilator in the treatment of bronchial asthma, emphysema, and bronchitis
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine, Pulmonology.a poisonous crystalline alkaloid extracted from the nightshade family; used as an antispasmodic and to dilate the eye pupil; also admi…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, Chemistry, General medicine, General chemistry.an inhaled bronchodilator (trade name Atrovent)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine, Pulmonology.a drug that relaxes and dilates the bronchial passageways and improves the passages of air into the lungs
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine, Pulmonology.a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles; "curare acts by bloc…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, Chemistry, General medicine, General chemistry.a colorless crystalline alkaloid derived from tea leaves or made synthetically; used in medicine as a bronchial dilator
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine, Pulmonology.a polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibits the activity of thrombin in coagulation of…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, Chemistry, General medicine.an inhaled bronchodilator (trade name Atrovent)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine, Pulmonology.a polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibits the activity of thrombin in coagulation of…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, Chemistry, General medicine.a polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibits the activity of thrombin in coagulation of…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, Chemistry, General medicine.a salt or ester of maleic acid; used as a nontricyclic antidepressant drug for psychomotor activation
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, Chemistry, General medicine, General chemistry.a bronchodilator (trade name Alupent) used to treat asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions; available in oral or inhalant form…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine, Pulmonology.a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilato…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, Chemistry, General chemistry.a chloride used as an antidote for nerve gases such as sarin or VX
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, Chemistry, General medicine, General chemistry.a bronchodilator (trade names Ventolin or Proventil) used for asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions; available in oral or inh…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology, General medicine, Pulmonology.a salt of salicylic acid (included in several commonly used drugs)
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A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, odorless, powdered, crystalline, alkaloid.A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, odorless, powdered, crystalline, alkaloid.A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, odorless, powdered, crystalline, alkaloid.A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, odorless, powdered, crystalline, alkaloid.A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, odorless, powdered, crystalline, alkaloid.an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, odorless, powdered, crystalline, alkaloid.the trade name for a drug used to treat upper respiratory congestion; it contains an antihistamine and a bronchodilator and a vasocons…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, odorless, powdered, crystalline, alkaloid.A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, odorless, powdered, crystalline, alkaloid.A white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from sassy bark (Erythrophleum Guineense).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, odorless, powdered, crystalline, alkaloid.An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, odorless, powdered, crystalline, alkaloid.An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, odorless, powdered, crystalline, alkaloid.One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and rega…
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