"Jane told an anecdote about her early childhood."
2. Anything that works against an unwanted condition; a remedy or a cure: "A hobby is considered a good antidote for boredom and for keeping our minds active."
"Is there an antidote for strychnine poisoning?"
Be sure to spell and pronounce anecdote properly. Don't confuse it with antidote; for example, "James told an anecdote about his Canadian travels."
"Does the doctor have an antidote for the food poisoning our friend got when he ate at the restaurant?"
2. An agent that relieves or counteracts; such as, "jogging as an antidote to nervous tension."
3. Etymology: from Middle English, from Latin antidotum, which came from Greek antidoton, from antididonai, antido-, "to give as a remedy against"; from Latin anti- + Latin didonai, "to give").
2. A remedy to counteract the effects of a poison or toxin.
It is administered by mouth, intravenously, or sometimes on the skin, it may work by directly neutralizing the poison; causing an opposite effect in the body; binding to the poison to prevent its absorption, inactivate it, or keep it from fitting a receptor at its site of action; or binding to a receptor to prevent the poison's binding there, and blocking its action.
Some poisons are not active until converted to a different form in the body; their antidotes interrupt that conversion.