what does tartrate is in medication?
A salt or ester of tartaric acid. Classified under: Nouns denoting substances. Hypernyms (tartrate is a kind of...): salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of tartrate): antimony potassium tartrate; tartar emetic (a poisonous colorless salt used as a mordant and in medicine)