meglumine
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meglumine
1. a crystalline base used in preparing salts of certain acids for use as diagnostic radiopaque media. Meglumine diatrizoate is used in angiocardiography and excretory urography; meglumine iodipamide is used in cholecystography; and meglumine iothalamate is used in cerebral angiography, excretory urography and peripheral arteriography. Called also methylglucamine.
2. meglumine antimonate, a pentavalent antimonial used as an antiprotozoal, a preferred drug in the treatment of leishmaniasis.
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