Term: prednisone: a dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten); used as an anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of arthritis and as an immunosuppressant
Candidate hypernym: glucocorticoid: a steroid hormone that is produced by the adrenal cortex of animals; affects functioning of gonads and has anti-inflammatory activity → 1
Candidate hypernym: overachievement: better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) → 0
Candidate hypernym: dryadella: comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: very dwarf plants having short tufted and usually unifoliate stems with usually solitary flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: swamp willow: North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes → 0
Candidate hypernym: icepick: pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice → 0
Candidate hypernym: maiden voyage: the first voyage of its kind → 0
Candidate hypernym: control experiment: an experiment designed to control for variables affecting the results of another experiment → 0
Candidate hypernym: sociology: the study and classification of human societies → 0
Candidate hypernym: adjective: a word that expresses an attribute of something → 0
Candidate hypernym: water pimpernel: a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus → 0
Candidate hypernym: round arch: an arch formed in a continuous curve; characteristic of Roman architecture → 0