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Medical Term:

leukotriene receptor antagonist

Definition

a class of agents, used in the prophylactic and chronic treatment of asthma in older children and adults; these drugs are not bronchodilators in themselves, but act by interfering with the leukotriene-mediated inflammatory process present in asthma.

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