Definition of Antipyrine

1. n. An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.

Definition of Antipyrine

1. Noun. The drug phenazone. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Antipyrine

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Antipyrine

1. An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antipyrine

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antipyrine (current term)
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Literary usage of Antipyrine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Druggist (1890)
"antipyrine and Iodine. M. MANSEAU finds that antipyrine combines with a definite proportion of iodine, and bases thereon a method by means of which the ..."

2. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"A quantity of the sample containing not more than 0.25 grm. of antipyrine is dissolved in 20 cc of water and treated with 5 cc of alcohol- free chloroform, ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1887)
"He had given antipyrine in twenty miscellaneous cases of headache, ... HAMMOND had used antipyrine, and his experience had been entirely negative. ..."

4. Laboratory manual for the detection of poisons and powerful drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth (1921)
"antipyrine differs from most alkaloids in being more soluble in water. To detect < antipyrine, dissolve in a little water the residue left on evaporating ..."

5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1886)
"In intermittent fever he found that antipyrine shortened the duration of the fever, ... He concludes that antipyrine is a powerful antipyretic, ..."

6. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge (1914)
"\CO CH antipyrine crystallises in colourless plates possessing a slightly ... A solution of tannic acid added to an aqueous solution of antipyrine (i : too) ..."

7. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1892)
"On separating the ether and evaporating off the solvent, the antipyrine is obtained as a ... antipyrine is soluble in about its own weight of cold water, ..."

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