Counterirritant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Counterirritant \Coun"ter*ir`ri*tant\ (-?r"r?-tant), n.,
  Counterirritation \Coun"ter*ir`ri*ta"tion\, n.
     See {Counter irritant}, etc., under {Counter}, a.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  counterirritant
       n : a medicine applied locally to produce superficial
           inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "counterirritant":
     adjuvant, antacid, antidote, buffer, carminative, counteractant,
     counteractive, counteragent, emmenagogue, expectorant, hormone,
     maturative, neutralizer, nullifier, offset, preventative,
     preventive, prophylactic, remedy, vasodilator, vitamin