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Definition of Acetanilid

1. Noun. A white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic.

Definition of Acetanilid

1. Noun. (alternative form of acetanilide) ¹

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Definition of Acetanilid

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Acetanilid

1. C6H5NHCOCH3; N-Phenylacetamide;an analgesic and antipyretic; continued use causes cyanosis. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Acetanilid

Literary usage of Acetanilid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1895)
"IN 1890 I first used acetanilid in a case of catarrhal fever with convulsions, in an infant nine months old, with astonishing amelioration of all grave ..."

2. Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery Reprinted by American Medical Association (1912)
"For some time after the change in composition, from acetanilid to ... There is no law over there requiring the presence of acetanilid to be declared on the ..."

3. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1905)
"acetanilid is the chief ingredient in headache powders so generally ... The toxicity of acetanilid, in common with related coal-tar products of the ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1896)
"THE QUALITATIVE EXAMINATION OF acetanilid. BY CHARLES PLATT. Received November 22, 1895. IN view of the deficiency in the analytical literature of the acid ..."

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