antiopiate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]antiopiate (not comparable)
- Counteracting an opiate.
- 2000, Lester A. Lefton, Psychology:
- That is, the location of heroin use can serve as a conditioned stimulus for the antiopiate response. When the user injects the drug in a different location, the well-developed antiopiate response does not occur […]
Noun
[edit]antiopiate (plural antiopiates)
- A drug that has an antiopiate effect.
- 2012, C. J. Hawkey, Jaime Bosch, Joel E. Richter, Textbook of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, page 78:
- Cholestyramine, however, may exert effects different from decreasing the enterohepatic circulation of bile acids including the release of endogenous antiopiates (e.g., cholecystokinin) that may result in a decrease in the perception of pruritus.