Term: counterirritant: a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation
Candidate hypernym: medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease → 1
Candidate hypernym: holder: the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it → 0
Candidate hypernym: eschar: a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin → 0
Candidate hypernym: thrombasthenia: a rare autosomal recessive disease in which the platelets do not produce clots in the normal way and hemorrhage results → 0
Candidate hypernym: metathesis: a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence → 0
Candidate hypernym: pan: chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids → 0
Candidate hypernym: blastema: a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops → 0
Candidate hypernym: townie: resident of a college town not affiliated with the college → 0
Candidate hypernym: religious: a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience → 0
Candidate hypernym: exhortation: the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion → 0
Candidate hypernym: inherence: the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic → 0