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antipyretic

[ UK /ˌæntɪpa‍ɪɹˈɛtɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. preventing or alleviating fever
NOUN
  1. any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever

How To Use antipyretic In A Sentence

  • 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
  • Routine prophylaxis using phenobarbital, valproic acid, oral diazepam, or antipyretics is controversial and not indicated.
  • Even though relief of symptoms will not shorten the duration of illness, patients can benefit from analgesics, antipyretics, beta-agonist inhalers, antitussives or vaporizers.
  • Methods: The antipyretic effect of XNJI and its influence on central febrile medium were observed in rabbit model of hyperpyrexia caused by rabbit hemorrhagic fever virus(RHFV).
  • In particular, antipyretic treatment methods continue to be used incorrectly, thereby increasing the risk of toxicity.
  • The pith of the stems is used for antiphlogistic, antipyretic and other medicinal purposes.
  • 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
  • The infection resolves spontaneously in 7-14 days, during which antipyretic analgesics such as paracetamol and adequate hydration are helpful.
  • 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
  • Bitter Melon is known as an antipoison or antipyretic agent.
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