Flashcards: Antitussives

Antimony pentasulfide is an inorganic compound of antimony and sulfur, also known as antimony red.

Oxeladin is a cough suppressant.

Prenoxdiazine (marketed as Libexin) is a cough suppressant.

Dextromethorphan (DXM or DM) is a drug of the morphinan class with sedative, dissociative, and stimulant properties (at higher doses).

Dextropropoxyphene is an analgesic in the opioid category, patented in 1955 and manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company.

Hydrocodone/paracetamol, also known as hydrocodone/acetaminophen or hydrocodone/APAP and marketed under the trade name Vicodin among others, is the combination of an opioid pain medication, hydrocodone, with paracetamol (acetaminophen).

Ethylmorphine (also known as codethyline, dionine, and ethyl morphine) is an opioid analgesic and antitussive.

Dextrorphan (DXO) is a psychoactive drug of the morphinan chemical class which acts as an antitussive or cough suppressant and dissociative hallucinogen.

Codeine is an opiate used to treat pain, as a cough medicine, and for diarrhea.

Glaucine is an alkaloid found in several different plant species in the Papaveraceae family such as Glaucium flavum, Glaucium oxylobum and Corydalis yanhusuo, and in other plants like Croton lechleri in the family Euphorbiaceae.

Nicocodeine (Lyopect, Tusscodin) is an opioid analgesic and cough suppressant, an ester of codeine closely related to dihydrocodeine and the codeine analogue of nicomorphine.

Noscapine (also known as Narcotine, Nectodon, Nospen, Anarcotine and (archaic) Opiane) is a benzylisoquinoline alkaloid from plants of the poppy family, without painkilling properties.

Butamirate (or brospamin) is a cough suppressant.

Oxolamine is a cough suppressant that is available as a generic drug in many jurisdictions.

Pholcodine is a drug which is an opioid cough suppressant (antitussive).

Dibunate is a cough suppressant.

Nepinalone is a cough suppressant.

Diphepanol is a cough suppressant.

Benzonatate is a non-narcotic oral cough suppressant, or antitussive, with effects that last from 6 to 8 hours.

Domiodol is a mucolytic and expectorant.

Letosteine is a mucolytic patented (U.S. patent 6987120) by Piero del Soldato of Milan, Italy.

Levopropoxyphene is an antitussive.

Zipeprol is a centrally acting cough suppressant developed in France in the 1970s.

Dropropizine (or dipropizine) is a cough suppressant.

Levodropropizine is a cough suppressant.

Meprotixol is a cough suppressant.

Proxorphan (INN), also known as proxorphan tartate (USAN) (developmental code name BL-5572M), is an opioid analgesic and antitussive drug of the morphinan family that was never marketed.

Cloperastine (INN) or cloperastin, also known as cloperastine hydrochloride (JAN) (brand names Hustazol, Nitossil, Seki) and cloperastine fendizoate (or hybenzoate), is an antitussive and antihistamine that is marketed as a cough suppressant in Japan, Hong Kong, and in some European countries.

Levomethadone (INN; L-Polamidon, L-Polamivet, Levadone, Levothyl), or levamethadone, is a synthetic opioid analgesic and antitussive which is marketed in Europe and is used for pain management and in opioid maintenance therapy.

Bibenzonium bromide is a cough suppressant.

Dimemorfan (INN) (or dimemorphan) (brand names Astomin, Dastosirr, Tusben), or dimemorfan phosphate (JAN), also known as 3,17-dimethylmorphinan, is an antitussive (cough suppressant) of the morphinan family that is widely used in Japan and is also marketed in Spain and Italy.

Fedrilate is a cough suppressant.

Dimethoxanate is a cough suppressant.

Droxypropine is a cough suppressant.

Isoaminile is an antitussive (cough suppressant) used under the trade-name Peracon.

Levoverbenone is an expectorant.

Neltenexine (trade name Alveoten) is a mucolytic.

Morclofone is a cough suppressant.

Piperidione (trade name Sedulon) is a sedative drug, structurally related to methyprylon and pyrithyldione.

Tipepidine (INN) (brand names Asverin, Antupex, Asvelik, Asvex, Bitiodin, Cofdenin A, Hustel, Nodal, Sotal), also known as tipepidine hibenzate (JAN), is a synthetic, non-opioid antitussive and expectorant of the thiambutene class.

Moxazocine (BL-4566) is an opioid analgesic of the benzomorphan family which was never marketed.

Pentoxyverine (rINN) or carbetapentane is an antitussive (cough suppressant) commonly used for cough associated with illnesses like common cold.

Erdosteine is a mucolytic.

Ephedrine/ethylmorphine (Lepheton) is a combination drug used as an antitussive.

Choline theophyllinate (INN), also known as oxtriphylline, is a cough medicine derived from xanthine that acts as a bronchodilator to open up airways in the lung.

Caramiphen is an anticholinergic drug used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

Clofedanol (INN) or chlophedianol (BAN) is a centrally acting cough suppressant used in the treatment of dry cough.

Drotebanol (Oxymethebanol) is a morphinan derivative that acts as an opioid agonist.

Indantadol (CHF-3381, V-3381) is a drug which was formerly being investigated as an anticonvulsant and neuroprotective and is now under development for the treatment of neuropathic pain and chronic cough in Europe by Vernalis and Chiesi.

Isomethadone (INN, BAN; Liden), also known as isoamidone, is a synthetic opioid analgesic and antitussive related to methadone that was used formerly as a pharmaceutical drug but is now no longer marketed.

Clobutinol is a cough suppressant distributed by Boehringer-Ingelheim, Novartis's Hexal (Sandoz), Stada and possibly other companies.

Benproperine (INN) is a cough suppressant.

Codoxime (Codossima) is an opiate analogue that is a derivative of hydrocodone, where the 6-ketone group has been replaced by carboxymethyloxime.

Normethadone (INN, BAN; brand names Cophylac, Dacartil, Eucopon, Mepidon, Noramidone, Normedon, and others), also known as desmethylmethadone or phenyldimazone, is a synthetic opioid analgesic and antitussive agent.