antihistamine

English

Etymology

From 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, 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.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:antihistamine

Derived terms

• anticistamines
• antihistaminic

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
• Indonesian: antihistamina
• Italian: antistaminico (it) m
• 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
• Romanian: antihistaminic (ro) n
• Russian: антигистами́н m (antigistamín)
• Spanish: antihistamínico (es) m
• Turkish: antihistaminik, antihistamin