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KAOPECTATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trade name for a fixed-combination antidiarrheal drug that use kaolin as the adsorbent and pectin as the emollient
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("Kaopectate" is a kind of...):
antidiarrheal; antidiarrheal drug (a drug used to control or stop diarrhea)
Meronyms (substance of "Kaopectate"):
china clay; china stone; kaolin; kaoline; porcelain clay; terra alba (a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper))
pectin (any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams)