Pharmacologic Substance
antidote Audio
an·ti·dote [ an-ti-doht ]
Subclass of:
Protective Agents
Definitions related to antidote:
  • Agent counteracting or neutralizing the action of a poison.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Agents counteracting or neutralizing the action of POISONS.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Antidote, Remedy to counteract the effects of a poison or toxin. Administered by mouth, intravenously, or sometimes on the skin, it may work by directly neutralizing the poison; causing an opposite effect in the body; binding to the poison to prevent its absorption, inactivate it, or keep it from...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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