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Antipyretic

Anˊti-py-ret′ic

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Adj.
(Med.)
Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever.
Noun.
A febrifuge.

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antipyretic

antipyretic

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antipyretic (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) That reduces fever; fever-reducing.
    • 1999, Otto Appenzeller, The Autonomic Nervous System, ISBN 0444825460, p. 486.
      The antipyretic action of AVP is limited mainly to its action in a precise location in the ventral septum, though there is some evidence for a similar action in the medial amygdala.

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antipyretic (plural antipyretics)

  1. A pharmaceutical that reduces fever; a febrifuge.

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