The Drug-Drug Interactions Ontology

Last uploaded: February 11, 2016
Preferred Name

cathartic
Synonyms

cathartics

ID

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_75325

Definition

Any substance that accelerates defecation. Compare with laxatives, which are substances that ease defecation (usually by softening faeces). A substance can be both a laxative and a cathartic.

label

cathartic

prefixIRI

obo2:CHEBI_75325

prefLabel

cathartic

Synonym

cathartics

xref

Wikipedia:Cathartic

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52208

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