paracetamol

British  

/ ˌpærəˈsiːtəˌmɒl, -ˈsɛtə- /

noun

1. US name: acetaminophen.  a mild analgesic and antipyretic drug used as an alternative to aspirin

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Etymology

Origin of paracetamol

C20: from para-acetamidophenol

Example Sentences

"At one stage, I got quite tearful because I didn't think I could deal with the pain much longer and all they gave me was a paracetamol which did nothing," she added.

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I looked at the different medications—paracetamol, vitamins, and two others with long names that I didn’t know.

From Literature

"If the children feel sick, we give them paracetamol."

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Any previously-reported links between the drug and an increased risk of autism are likely to be explained by other factors, rather than a direct effect of the paracetamol itself, the review says.

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Published in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women's Health, it looked at 43 of the most robust studies into paracetamol use during pregnancy, involving hundreds of thousands of women, particularly those comparing pregnancies where the mother had taken the drug to pregnancies where she hadn't.

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