Secretolytic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Secretolytic is an adjective meaning (medicine) That breaks up secretions (especially phlegm).
Meaning
(medicine) That breaks up secretions (especially phlegm).
More Meanings
- Any substance or agent of this kind.
Example Sentences
Benserazide is commercially provided in an oral combination tablet with Levodopa for treatment for Parkinson’s disease, and has been approved and widely utilized in this combination for more than 40 years[40 ] Three other inducers which were not pursued in animal models included: Ambroxol, a drug with secretolytic and secretomotoric actions that restores respiratory physiological clearance mechanisms in bronchopulmonary diseases, which is used as an inhalant.
Word Forms
- secretolytics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include senolytic, mucolytic, antisecretory, expectorant, apophlegmatic, ecphractic.
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