Dexamethasone

2 definitions found

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

  dexamethasone \dexamethasone\ n.
     a corticosteroid drug used to treat allergies or
     inflammation.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  dexamethasone
       n : a corticosteroid drug (trade names Decadron or Dexamethasone
           Intensol or Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to treat
           allergies or inflammation [syn: {Decadron}, {Dexamethasone
           Intensol}, {Dexone}, {Hexadrol}, {Oradexon}]