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: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: panpipe: a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together → 0
Candidate hypernym: scenic railway: small railway in an amusement park → 0
Candidate hypernym: slug: an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped → 0
Candidate hypernym: stinger: a remark capable of wounding mentally → 0
Candidate hypernym: kipper: salted and smoked herring → 0
Candidate hypernym: halftone: an engraving used to reproduce an illustration → 0
Candidate hypernym: rain shadow: an area that has little precipitation because some barrier causes the winds to lose their moisture before reaching it → 0
Candidate hypernym: disadvantage: the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position → 0
Candidate hypernym: contrariness: deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline → 0
Candidate hypernym: gas well: a well that yields or has yielded natural gas → 0