Usually means: Anti-diarrheal medication, reduces bowel movement.
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  1. loperamide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. loperamide: Wiktionary
  3. loperamide: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. loperamide: Dictionary.com
  5. Loperamide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. loperamide: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Loperamide: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. loperamide: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (loperamide)

noun:  (pharmacology) A synthetic antidiarrheal agent of the opiate class (trademark Imodium) that slows intestinal peristalsis and is taken orally in the form of its hydrochloride C₂₉H₃₃ClN₂O₂·HCl to control acute nonspecific diarrhea or chronic diarrhea associated with inflammatory bowel disease or to reduce fecal volume discharged from ileostomies.

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