Paregoric

Definition: Paregoric

Paregoric

Noun

1. Medicine used to treat diarrhea.

Date "paregoric" was first used: 1704. (references)

Synonym: Paregoric

Synonym: camphorated tincture of opium (n). (additional references)

Paregoric, also known as Camphorated Opium tincture, is a medicine known for its anti-diarrheal and systemic properties.

The active ingredient of this mixture is opium, with other ingredients being benzoic acid, camphor and anise oil.

The main effect of this preparation is to increase the muscular tone of the intestine, and also to inhibit normal peristalsis.

Its main use is as a cure for acute diarrhea.

Problems with its use include: possible opium dependency.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Remedy	Adjective: remedial; restorative; corrective, palliative, healing; sanatory, sanative; prophylactic, preventative, immunizing; salutiferous; (salutary); medical, medicinal; therapeutic, chirurgical, epulotic, paregoric, tonic, corroborant, analeptic, balsamic, anodyne, hypnotic, neurotic, narcotic, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, emollient; depuratory; detersive, detergent; abstersive, disinfectant, febrifugal, alterative; traumatic, vulnerary.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Approximately 50% of patients report some relief in symptoms with high doses of opioid antimotility drugs, such as loperamide, diphenoxylate, and paregoric. (references)
		Antimotility agents (loperamide, diphenoxylate, and paregoric) primarily reduce diarrhea by slowing transit time in the gut, and, thus, allows more time for absorption. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Paregoric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Paregoric" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	4	175,879

Expression using "paregoric": paregoric elexir. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "paregoric": rest-paregoric.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "paregoric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qetësues (anodyne, assuagement, balmy, bland, calming, comforting, demulcent, depressant, drug, easeful, lenitive, pacificatory, painkiller, palliative, reposeful, restful, sedative, soother, soothing, tranquilizer), bar qetësues (tranquilizer). (various references)

Bulgarian		камфоров опиат. (various references)

Farsi		مسکن درد, تنتورمسکن , تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), تخفیف دهنده درد. (various references)

French		élixir parégorique. (various references)

German		schmerzstillend (anaesthetic, analgetic, anodyne, pain killing, pain-killing, pain-relieving). (various references)

Greek		πραϋντικόσ (lenitive, mitigative, sedative, soothing), πραϋντικό φάρμακο (sedative). (various references)

Hungarian		fájdalomcsillapító szer (anodyne, pain killer), fájdalomcsillapító (analgesic, analgetic, anodyne, lenitive, pain killer, painkiller, pain-killing). (various references)

Pig Latin		aregoricpay

Portuguese		elixir paregórico, calmante (ataractic, ataraxic, calmative, composing, depressant, easeful, healing, mollifier, painless, relaxing, salve, sedative, soothing, tranquilizer, tranquillizer), aparar (caress, clip, detruncate, fettle, fondle, lop, mow, nib, pare, prune, skive, spoil, trim, ward off, Whittle). (various references)

Romanian		substanţã (color, colour, essence, gist, mass, material, matter, stuff, substance), analgezicã, analgezic (analgesic, pain killer). (various references)

Russian		болеутоляющее средство (analgesic, assuagement, painkiller). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		paregorično sredstvo, paregoričan, sredstvo za ublaživanje. (various references)

Spanish		calmante (appeasement, calmative, calming, lull, mollifier, pacificatory, painkiller, reposeful, sedation, sedative, soothing), analgésico (analgesic, analgetic, painkiller, soothing). (various references)

Swedish		smärtstillande medel (analgesic, analgesics, anodyne, lenitive, pain killer). (various references)

Turkish		paregorik, yatıştırıcı ilaç (nervine), yatıştırıcı (anodyne, calmative, calming, composing, conciliatory, corrective, demulcent, depressant, low profile, nervine, pacificatory, palliative, placatory, propitiatory, salve, sedative, soothing, trank, tranquilizer, tranquillizer). (various references)

Ukranian		камфорна настойка опію, болезаспокійливий засіб (anodyne, assuagement, balm, painkiller), болезаспокійливий (analgesic, anetic, anodyne, antalgic, demulcent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	paregorikos. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "paregoric": paregorics. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Paregoric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paragoric, pierogi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-o-p-r-r"
	-1 letter: progeria.
	-2 letters: apogeic, grapier.
	-3 letters: cagier, carper, copier, corrie, gorier, griper, grocer, groper, orgiac, orrice, picaro, pricer, racier, rapier, repair, ropier.
	-4 letters: airer, areic, cager, caper, carer, cargo, carpi, ceria, cigar, coper, copra, corer, corgi, coria, crape, crier, cripe, crore, erica, gaper, grace, grape, gripe, grope, ocrea, opera, orgic, pacer, pager, pareo, parer, parge, pargo, pirog, price, prier, prior, racer, raper, recap, repro, rerig, ricer, rigor, riper, roger, roper.
	-5 letters: acre, aero, ager, agio, aper, arco, cage, cape, capo, care, carp, carr, cero, ciao, cire, coir, cope, core, crag, crap, crop, epic, ergo, gape, gear, giro, goer, gore, gorp, grip, ogre, orca, orra, pace, page, pair, pare, parr, peag, pear, peri, pica, pice, pier, pore, prao, prig, proa, prog, race, rage, ragi, rape, rare, reap, rear, repo, rice, ripe, roar, rope.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-o-p-r-r"
	+1 letter: paregorics.
	+2 letters: procreating, renographic, reproaching, xerographic.
	+3 letters: chirographer, copartnering, discographer, iconographer, micrographed, petrographic, reprographic, superorganic.
	+4 letters: cartographies, chirographers, chirographies, choreographic, chorographies, discographers, iconographers, lexicographer, reciprocating, reproachingly, reprographics, sharecropping, stereographic, thermographic.
	+5 letters: arteriographic, cardiographies, choreographies, choreographing, chronographies, cryptographies, intercomparing, lexicographers, petrographical, spectrographic.
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