Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.
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- noun The drug
phenazone .
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Examples
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In addition to dyestuffs, it is a starting-product for the manufacture of many drugs, such as antipyrine, antifebrin, &c.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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M.e. Doudieux remembered that a few days before she had received a packet of capsules marked "antipyrine," and she sent the box to M. Godard, advising him to take one or two before he retired.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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I will merely add, however, that I have long known that the dosage of phenacetin, antipyrine, morphine, chloralamid, chloral, the bromides, and many other remedies might be reduced by resort to the same procedure; all of which is merely equivalent to stating that their pharmaco-dynamic energy may be increased in this way.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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"Nothing; only I had a headache and I took a big dose of antipyrine."
Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914
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PAPILLON, G.E. Accidents consécutifs à la suppression brusque du café chez les caféiques; café et antipyrine.
All About Coffee 1909
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Influence of certain drugs upon the toxicity of acetanilide and antipyrine.
All About Coffee 1909
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My head aches as if it would burst, and I have taken five grains of antipyrine.
The Parasite Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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My head aches as if it would burst, and I have taken five grains of antipyrine.
The Parasite 1894
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In these are generally compounded phenacetine, caffeine, antipyrine, acetanilid, or morphine, diluted with soda, or sugar of milk.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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The capsule of antipyrine which I swallow is, before my doing so, visible to all eyes; once in my mouth, I am the only one to perceive it.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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