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antipyrine
/ -riːn; ˌæntɪˈpaɪrɪn /
noun
- a drug formerly used to reduce pain and fever. Formula: C 11 H 12 N 2 O Also calledphenazine
Example Sentences
In 1959, the German geneticist Friedrich Vogel was the first to use the term 'pharmacogenetics'7, a concept that was bolstered by landmark studies by the pharmacologists Elliott Vesell and John G. Page showing that the pharmacokinetic profile of the pain-relieving drug antipyrine is more similar in monozygotic twins than in dizygotic twins8.
The drops at issue contain ingredients like benzocaine, antipyrine and zinc acetate.
Subsequently, the company became known solely as Sandoz and began making pharmaceuticals, the analgesic and antipyretic antipyrine being its first major product of this type.
T. E. Smith, of Cincinnati, had his whole right side paralyzed by a ten-grain dose of antipyrine.
Thus if our knowledge of chemical substances were complete, we should certainly have to know theoretically that a few grains of antipyrine introduced into the organism have an influence on those brain centres which regulate the temperature of the human body.
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