cough medicine

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛd(ɪ)s(ɪ)n, -ɛdəs(ə)n

Noun

cough medicine (countable and uncountable, plural cough medicines)

1. A medication or medicine used to treat those people with coughing and related conditions, usually in liquid or syrup form.

Synonyms

• antitussive
• antitussive medicine
• cough mixture
• cough remedy
• cough syrup
• linctus

 

Translations

medication or medicine used to treat those people with coughing and related conditions

• Finnish: yskänlääke (fi)
• German: Antitussivum (de) n, Hustenarznei f, Hustenmedikament n, Hustenmedizin f, Hustenmittel (de) n
• Greek: αντιβηχικός (el) (antivichikós)
• Turkish: öksürük ilacı

Further reading

• cough medicine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia