| antacid | <pharmacology> A substance that counteracts or neutralises acidity, usually of the stomach. Origin: L. Acidus = sour (16 Dec 1997) |
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| antacids | Substances that counteract or neutralise acidity. They are used mainly for the treatment of gastrointestinal irritation or ulcers. (12 Dec 1998) |
| antagonism | An interaction between chemicals in which one partially or completelyinhibits the effect of the other (for example, a drug that blocks a hormone's receptor site would be a hormone antagonist). (09 Oct 1997) |
| antagonist | <pharmacology> A substance that tends to nullify the action of another, as a drug that binds to a cell receptor without eliciting a biological response. Origin: Gr. Antagonistes = an opponent (18 Nov 1997) |
| antagonistic effect | This is the consequence of one chemical (or group of chemicals) counteracting the effects of another chemical, the opposing chemicals cancel out each other's effects. (09 Oct 1997) |
| antagonistic muscles | Those having an opposite function, the contraction of one having the potential, in theory, to "neutralise" that of the other. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antagonistic reflexes | Reflex's which do not act toward a common purpose, and cannot together traverse the final common path. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antalgesia | Rarely used term for lowering of a previous elevation in pain threshold. Origin: anti-+ G. Algesis, sense of pain (05 Mar 2000) |
| antalgic | <medicine> Alleviating pain. A medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne. Origin: Pref. Anti- + Gr. Pain: cf. F. Antalgique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| antalgic gait | A characteristic gait resulting from pain on weightbearing in which the stance phase of gait is shortened on the affected side. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antalkaline | Reducing or neutralizing alkalinity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antambulacral | <zoology> Away from the ambulacral region. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| antanaclasis | A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft. A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc. Origin: Gr.; + a bending back and breaking. See Anaclastic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| antaphrodisiac | <medicine> Capable of blunting the venereal appetite. Anything that quells the venereal appetite. Origin: Pref. Anti- + aphrodisiac. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| antaphroditic | <medicine> 1. Antaphrodisiac. 2. Antisyphilitic. Origin: Pref. Anti- + Gr. Aphrodite: cf. F. Antaphroditique. An antaphroditic medicine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |