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- noun Plural form of
antipyretic .
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Examples
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I drink lukewarm barley tea, and every three or four hours I take one of the antipyretics I cadged from the nurse.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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I speak to the ship's nurse and get a bottle of antipyretics, fat white pills with a sour taste that stays in the mouth a long time after they're swallowed.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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If there is fever and more of the body aches type of illness, the West Nile favor, that we support with antipyretics.
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· Use medicines that reduce fever (antipyretics): for example, aspirin or paracetamol, two tablets every eight hours.
Chapter 6 1993
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Use only when other antipyretics and analgesics (e.g. acetyl salicylic acid and paracetamol) are not effective.
Chapter 4 1993
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Analgesics, antipyretics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and drugs used to treat gout
Chapter 8 1993
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Analgesics, antipyretics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and drugs used to treat gout
Chapter 8 1993
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As yet chemists have got no further with these than the oxidation products; but the study has afforded us several new antipyretics and many interesting facts.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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Plenty of pure, cool water internally, externally, and eternally, rest, fresh air, and careful feeding, are the best febrifuges and antipyretics known to modern medicine.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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I have observed a number of similar cases suffering from consolidation of the lungs and the resulting asthmatic or tubercular conditions, which had been doctored into these chronic ailments by means of antipyretics and of ice.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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