dimetane

1. 1.

   antihistamine (trade name Dimetane) used to treat hypersensitivity reactions (as rhinitis)

   Synonymsbrompheniramine maleate

   Broaderantihistamine

Other forms of dimetane

plural

dimetanes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dimetane

What does dimetane mean?

dimetane means "antihistamine (trade name Dimetane) used to treat hypersensitivity reactions (as rhinitis)".

How many syllables are in dimetane?

dimetane has 3 syllables: di-me-tane. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for dimetane?

Close synonyms include brompheniramine maleate. 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 dimetane a common word?

dimetane is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.