Meanings
comparative more antiphlogistic · superlative most antiphlogistic
- medicineCounteracting inflammation.
Messengers went off for her physician and medical man. They came, consulted, prescribed, vanished. The young companion of Miss Crawley, at the conclusion of their interview, came in to receive their instructions, and administered those antiphlogistic medicines which the eminent men ordered.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 14, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC - Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.
plural antiphlogistics
- medicineA plant or remedy that reduces inflammation.
Inflammatory glossocele must be combated by antiphlogistics.
1845, Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, page 338
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecounteracting inflammation
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From anti- + Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”) + -istic.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan antiinflamatori, antiinflamatori
- antiinflamatoricounteracting inflammation
- antiinflamatoriplant or remedy that reduces inflammation
Italian antiflogistico, antiflogistico
- antiflogisticocounteracting inflammation
- antiflogisticoplant or remedy that reduces inflammation
Portuguese antiflogístico, antiflogístico
- antiflogísticocounteracting inflammation
- antiflogísticoplant or remedy that reduces inflammation
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