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/ˈæspɹɪn/
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[ US /ˈæspɹɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈæspɹɪn/ ]
NOUN
- the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets
How To Use aspirin In A Sentence
- I always take a couple of aspirins when I feel a cold starting.
- I met Len Sellers in the mid-1990s, when he was still a journalism professor at San Francisco State University, where, among other things, he taught a newswriting course that was generally considered make-or-break for aspiring journalists, a hard-core exercise in using public documents and other reliable information sources to write solid news reports. ... he was an early believer in the possibilities of online journalism. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Nonprofit-Funded, University-Based News
- Access to Management Normally these cover basic skills in managing people, resources and finance and are for aspiring or new managers.
- In future, fans will have to put up with childish tantrums, spoilt behaviour and spats from aspiring business moguls who actually claim to be grown up. Times, Sunday Times
- And Johnson has some advice for people aspiring to a comfortable living playing music: ‘I've set it in my mind that I will not jive anybody, and not be jived by anybody.’
- They must have needed the aspirins after five hours of that.
- Non-selective NSAID therapy may be appropriate for chronic pain management in aspirin users given that suitable GI prophylactic measures are utilized in high-risk patients.
- Aspirin should help reduce the fever.
- As a result, many aspiring leaders look to outside organisations for the support they need, often paying for external coaching. Times, Sunday Times
- It would be wonderful to crawl into bed, to ask Matron for an aspirin.