Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Acetanilide: employed in medicine as an antipyretic.
 
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Acetanilide.
 
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pharmacology  A compound of 
aniline withacetyl , used toallay fever or pain. 
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_antipyrine_, _antifebrine_, and other similar preparations.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
 
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