meglumine /meg·lu·mine/ (meg´loo-mēn) a crystalline base used in preparing salts of certain acids for use as a diagnostic radiopaque media, e.g., diatrizoate m., iothalamate m.
meg·lu·mine (m g l -m n )n. A crystalline base whose salts are used as radiopaque media. |
meglumine
1. a crystalline base used in preparing salts of certain acids for use as diagnostic radiopaque media. Meglumine diatrizoate is used in angiocardiography and excretory urography; meglumine iodipamide is used in cholecystography; and meglumine iothalamate is used in cerebral angiography, excretory urography and peripheral arteriography. Called also methylglucamine.
2. meglumine antimonate, a pentavalent antimonial used as an antiprotozoal, a preferred drug in the treatment of leishmaniasis.
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