antidote
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an·ti·dote
(ăn'tĭ-dōt') 
n.
To relieve or counteract with an antidote: "Hallie's family life is laced with the poison of self-hatred, a poison that Sam has antidoted with love and understanding" (Christopher Swan).
antidotally an'ti·dot'al·ly adv.
n.
- A remedy or other agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison.
- An agent that relieves or counteracts: jogging as an antidote to nervous tension.
To relieve or counteract with an antidote: "Hallie's family life is laced with the poison of self-hatred, a poison that Sam has antidoted with love and understanding" (Christopher Swan).
[Middle English, from Latin antidotum, from Greek antidoton, from antididonai, antido-, to give as a remedy against : anti-, anti- + didonai, to give.]
antidotal an'ti·dot'al (ăn'tĭ-dōt'l) adj.antidotally an'ti·dot'al·ly adv.
USAGE NOTE Antidote may be followed by to, for, or against: an antidote to boredom; an antidote for snakebite; an antidote against inflation.
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia:
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antidote
Remedy to counteract the effects of a poison or toxin. Administered by mouth, intravenously, or sometimes on the skin, it may work by directly neutralizing the poison; causing an opposite effect in the body; binding to the poison to prevent its absorption, inactivate it, or keep it from fitting a receptor at its site of action; or binding to a receptor to prevent the poison's binding there, blocking its action. Some poisons are not active until converted to a different form in the body; their antidotes interrupt that conversion.
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antidote
noun
- Something that corrects or counteracts: corrective, countermeasure, curative, cure, remedy. See better/worse.
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antidotal
IN BRIEF: adj. - Counteracting the effects of a poison.
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Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry:
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antidote
a substance or other agent that limits or reverses the effects of a poison.
| antidiuretic hormone, antidiuretic, anticooperativity | |
| antifolate, antifreeze glycoprotein, antigen |
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antidotal
Having the properties of an antidote.
- a. therapy — treatment specifically directed towards reversing the effects of a poison.
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antidote
(an′tidōt)
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A substance that acts to antagonize the toxic effects of a drug, especially in overdose, or of a poison.
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- PHARMACOLOGY - antidote: agent that counteracts effects of poison
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Antidote
For other uses, see Antidote (disambiguation).
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An antidote is a substance which can counteract a form of poisoning.[1] The term ultimately derives from the Greek αντιδιδοναι antididonai, "given against".
The antidotes for some particular toxins are manufactured by injecting the toxin into an animal in small doses and extracting the resulting antibodies from the host animals' blood. This results in an antivenom that can be used to counteract poison produced by certain species of snakes, spiders, and other venomous animals. A number of venoms lack a viable antivenom, and a bite or sting from an animal producing such a toxin often results in death.[citation needed] Some animal venoms, especially those produced by arthropods (e.g. certain spiders, scorpions, bees, etc.) are only potentially lethal when they provoke allergic reactions and induce anaphylactic shock; as such, there is no "antidote" for these venoms because it is not a form of poisoning and anaphylactic shock can be treated (e.g., by the use of epinephrine).
Some other toxins have no known antidote. For example, the poison aconitine, a highly poisonous alkaloid derived from various aconite species has no antidote, and as a result is often fatal if it enters the human body in sufficient quantities.
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Ingested poisons are frequently treated by the oral administration of activated charcoal, which adsorbs the poison and flushes it from the digestive tract, thereby removing a large part of the toxin. Poisons which are injected into the body (such as those from bites or stings from venomous animals) are usually treated by the use of a constriction band which limits the flow of lymph and/or blood to the area, thus slowing circulation of the poison around the body. This should not be confused with use of a tourniquet which cuts off blood flow completely - often leading to the loss of the limb.
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Antidote
Dansk (Danish)
n. - antidot, modgift
Nederlands (Dutch)
tegengif, middel tegen
Français (French)
n. - (Méd, fig) antidote, contre-poison
Deutsch (German)
n. - Gegengift, Gegenmittel
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ιατρ., μτφ.) αντίδοτο
Português (Portuguese)
n. - antídoto (m)
Español (Spanish)
n. - antídoto, antitoxina, antitóxico, contraveneno
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - motgift
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
矫正方法, 解毒剂
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 矯正方法, 解毒劑
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 解毒剤, 矯正手段, 対策
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) مضاد للسم
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - תרופה המנטרלת פעולת רעל, כל דבר הפועל נגד דבר לא-נעים או רע
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