antiemetic
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_50919
Term info
database cross reference
- SNOMEDCT:52017007
- MeSH:D000932
- Wikipedia:Antiemetic
- SNOMEDCT:372764000
Subsets
3_STAR
definition
A drug used to prevent nausea or vomiting. An antiemetic may act by a wide range of mechanisms: it might affect the medullary control centres (the vomiting centre and the chemoreceptive trigger zone) or affect the peripheral receptors.
has obo namespace
chebi_ontology
has related synonym
antiemetico, anti-emetic, anti-emetics, antiemetics
id
CHEBI:50919