Crossword-Solution: ANTIPYRETIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Antipyretic | a. | Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. |
| Antipyretic | n. | A febrifuge. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANTIPYRETIC | anagram | CAPETRINITY, PERTINACITY |
We have 2 clues for the answer “ANTIPYRETIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| 1991's word: Fever-preventing | 1 answer |
| any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AMZEEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ANTIPYRETIC (5)
For instance, Davison, of this bureau, was able to reduce greatly the mortality from this affection by giving an antipyretic of 40 grains of quinin, 2 drams of acetanilid, and 30 grains of powdered nux vomica four times daily.
After experimenting with the root, the compilers of the Bengal Dispensatory announced their uncertainty as to whether or not it possessed antipyretic properties; however, they pronounce it diaphoretic, an exciter of the appetite and an excellent bitter tonic.
But the antipyretic influence of alcohol is so feeble in comparison with the proper application of water to the surface, or with the internal administration of sulphate of quinia, salicylic acid, digitalis, etc.
Noble said some time ago in the _London Times_:-- "Although it is true that alcohol is an antipyretic, yet its exhibition neither shortens nor modifies (favorably) the diseases of which the fever is but a symptom.
PHENACETINE:--"Phenacetine is a product of coal tar, and an antipyretic, a drug that lessens the temperature in high fevers, and rapidly disintegrates the blood.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2000).