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Definition of Antipyretic
1. Noun. Any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever.
2. Adjective. Preventing or alleviating fever.
Definition of Antipyretic
1. a. Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever.
Definition of Antipyretic
1. Adjective. (medicine) That reduces fever; fever-reducing. ¹
2. Noun. A pharmaceutical that reduces fever; a febrifuge. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Antipyretic
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Medical Definition of Antipyretic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Antipyretic
Literary usage of Antipyretic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1887)
"At a certain time we give the antipyretic, and the fever curve falls and there
is a certain ... We at once say that the antipyretic has produced the effect. ..."
2. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1890)
"Robert recommends as an antipyretic a new derivative of phenylhydrazin, which
has been ... Clinical experiments made with the new antipyretic by Prof. ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1894)
"THE antipyretic TREATMENT OF ACUTE DISEASE. BY THOMAS F. RAVEN, ... in the presence
of pyrexia, resort to antipyretic drugs, to ice, or to cold packs or ..."
4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1874)
"In the use of any antipyretic agent we have therefore to expect a temporary ...
Before the action of quinine as an antipyretic can be interpreted and ..."
5. Rational Hydrotherapy: A Manual of the Physiological and Therapeutic Effects by John Harvey Kellogg (1901)
"There has within the last few years been a very strong reaction against the use
of antipyretic drugs, and in favor of this truly physiological and rational ..."
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