Drug that prevents or reduces fever by lowering the body temperature from a raised state.
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Examples for "febrifuge"
Examples for "febrifuge"
1
The trees which furnish, the precious febrifuge bark are native here.
2
I also doctor him with febrifuge tea, made of snake and valerian roots.
3
The medicine must be a soporific as well as a febrifuge.
4
Its bark very thin, and of a pale yellow, is a powerful febrifuge.
5
He claims it is better than febrifuge and cures all ailments, including his rheumatism.
1
In most cases, antipyretic analgesics alone are insufficient during the early postoperative period.
2
Paracetamol is a common over-the-counter drug that has both analgesic and antipyretic activity.
3
He opened his medicine case and mixed a simple antipyretic.
4
Yeast-induced hyperthermia in rats was employed to study antipyretic action.
5
Forty years ago, aspirin's raison d'être was its antipyretic (fever-reducing) effect.
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