Usually means: Substance causing irritation to relieve pain.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word counterirritant:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. counterirritant: Merriam-Webster
  2. counterirritant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counterirritant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. counterirritant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. counterirritant: Vocabulary.com
  6. counterirritant: Wordnik
  7. counterirritant: Wiktionary
  8. counterirritant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. counterirritant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. counterirritant: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. counterirritant: Dictionary.com
  12. Counterirritant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Counterirritant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. counterirritant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. counterirritant: Rhymezone
  16. Counterirritant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. counterirritant: FreeDictionary.org
  18. counterirritant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. counterirritant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. counterirritant: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. counterirritant: Medical dictionary
  6. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (counterirritant)

▸ noun:  (pharmacology) Any substance used to cause inflammation in one part of the body with the goal of lessening inflammation elsewhere.

Similar:
counterirritation, abirritant, anti-inflammatory, irritant, antiphlogistic, revulsion, antirheumatic, proinflammatory, antiinflammatory, contrastimulant, more...

Opposite:
soothing, calming, relieving

Types:
mustard, horseradish, capsaicin, ginger, garlic, wasabi, more...

Adjectives:
mild, effective, other, useful, powerful, good, local, dental, positive, valuable, active

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Similar:
counterirritation, abirritant, anti-inflammatory, irritant, antiphlogistic, revulsion, antirheumatic, proinflammatory, antiinflammatory, contrastimulant, more...

Opposite:
soothing, calming, relieving

Types:
mustard, horseradish, capsaicin, ginger, garlic, wasabi, more...

Adjectives:
mild, effective, other, useful, powerful, good, local, dental, positive, valuable, active



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