antipyrine

/ -riːn, ˌæntɪˈpaɪrɪn /

noun

1. Also called: phenazine. a drug formerly used to reduce pain and fever. Formula: C 11 H 12 N 2 O

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.

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The drops at issue contain ingredients like benzocaine, antipyrine and zinc acetate.

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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.

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T. E. Smith, of Cincinnati, had his whole right side paralyzed by a ten-grain dose of antipyrine.

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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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