(pharmacology) A synthetic antidiarrheal agent of the opiate class (trademark Imodium) that slows intestinal peristalsis and is taken orally in the form of its hydrochloride C₂₉H₃₃ClN₂O₂·HCl to control acute nonspecific diarrhea or chronic diarrhea associated with inflammatory bowel disease or to reduce fecal volume discharged from ileostomies.
Related dictionary entries include hydrochloride, loperimide, diphenoxylate, lubiprostone, iloperidone, lodiperone.
Relationships are shown only after the shared lexical validator accepts them. A suggestion is not automatically an exact replacement.