antihistamine

antihistamine

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ histamine

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæn.tiˈhɪs.tə.miːn/, /ˌæn.taɪˈhɪs.tə.miːn/

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Noun

antihistamine (plural antihistamines)

1. (pharmacology) A drug or substance that counteracts the effects of a histamine. Commonly used to alleviate the symptoms of hay fever and other allergies.
   • 1946 December 1, British journal of pharmacology and chemotherapy, volume 1, number 4, page 278:

     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.

Derived terms

• antihistaminic

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:antihistamine

Translations

drug or substance

Catalan: antihistamínic m Chinese: Mandarin: 抗組織胺藥, 抗组织胺药 (kàngzǔzhī'ànyào) Czech: antihistaminikum n Finnish: antihistamiini (fi) French: antihistaminique (fr) m

German: Antihistaminikum (de) n Icelandic: ofnæmislyf n, andhistamín n Japanese: 抗ヒスタミン剤 (kō-hisutamin-zai), 抗ヒスタミン薬 (kō-hisutamin-yaku) Portuguese: anti-histamínico m, anti-histamina f Russian: антигистами́н m (antigistamín) Spanish: antihistamínico (es) m