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antihistamine

noun/ˌæntiˈhɪstəmiːn/

B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

A drug that counteracts the effects of histamine, used to relieve allergic symptoms.

The nurse noted that the older antihistamine had left the patient markedly drowsy the following morning.

Topic: Pharmacology in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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