Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Reducing or tending to reduce fever.
- noun A medication that reduces fever.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In medicine, serving as a preventive of or remedy for pyrexia or fever; depressing an abnormally high temperature: as, the new antipyretic alkaloid.
- noun A remedy for fever; an antifebrile.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine That reduces
fever ;fever -reducing. - noun A
pharmaceutical that reduces fever; afebrifuge .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective preventing or alleviating fever
- noun any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever
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Examples
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So great is the danger of such injurious results, few careful practitioners have cared to adopt the heroic "antipyretic" medication recommended by experimenters, preferring to allow their patients to burn with fever, mitigated only by such simple means as are commonly employed by nurses, than to require them to combat the poisonous influences of a drug in addition to the morbid element of the disease.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various
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Cinnamon also has a tremendous ability to act as an antipyretic, reducing fever in a manner similar to aspirin or Tylenol, without the negative side effects.
Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010
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IV antibiotic and oral antipyretic of choice: more $
Pneumonia on a Budget 1 Dinosaur 2009
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Do it in planned stages if you will with liberal antipyretic cover, but vaccination may actually end up protecting the child more than will be the case if she/he is left to acquire the infections naturally.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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There was no doctor with the wagon train, so all they could do was cleanse the wounds in hope of preventing infection, and force an antipyretic down his throat to try and ward off a fever.
The Frasers Clay Ana Leigh 2004
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In trials, positive results have been obtained for significant analgesic, antipyretic, and antiinflammatory effects.
7 Medicinals 1992
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Neem may also be a ready source of low-cost analgesic (pain relieving), or antipyretic (fever-reducing) compounds.
7 Medicinals 1992
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He opened his medicine case and mixed a simple antipyretic.
Hidden Gold Wilder Anthony
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It has been found, for example, that artificial quinine-like bodies, which fluoresce and give the green color with chlorine water and ammonia, have antipyretic properties like quinine, but their secondary effects are so pernicious as to prevent their use.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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In the second place, it is necessary that the antipyretic treatment, to reduce the fever, should not be foreign to the organism and should not be such as is not measurable in degrees as to its effects, or has any unpleasant accompanying effects or after-effects.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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