antidiarrheal drug

antidiarrheal drug
noun
a drug used to control or stop diarrhea
Syn: ↑antidiarrheal
Hypernyms: ↑medicine, ↑medication, ↑medicament, ↑medicinal drug
Hyponyms: ↑Kaopectate, ↑Lomotil

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