camphorated tincture of opium

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   medicine used to treat diarrhea

   Synonymsparegoric

   Broadermedicine

Questions about camphorated tincture of opium

What does camphorated tincture of opium mean?

camphorated tincture of opium means "medicine used to treat diarrhea".

What is another word for camphorated tincture of opium?

Close synonyms include paregoric. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is camphorated tincture of opium a common word?

camphorated tincture of opium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.