secretolytic

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adjective

That breaks up secretions (especially phlegm)

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adjectivesecretolytic (comparative more secretolytic, superlative most secretolytic)

comparative more secretolytic · superlative most secretolytic

  1. medicineThat breaks up secretions (especially phlegm)
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    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.

    2015 December 30, “Novel Inducers of Fetal Globin Identified through High Throughput Screening (HTS) Are Active In Vivo in Anemic Baboons and Transgenic Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
nounsecretolytic (plural secretolytics)

plural secretolytics

  1. Any substance or agent of this kind.

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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