antiphlogistic

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”) +‎ -istic.

Adjective

antiphlogistic (comparative more antiphlogistic, superlative most antiphlogistic)

  1. (pharmacology) Counteracting inflammation.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 14, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
      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.
  2. Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

Translations

Noun

antiphlogistic (plural antiphlogistics)

  1. (pharmacology) A plant or remedy that reduces inflammation.
    • 1845, Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, page 338:
      Inflammatory glossocele must be combated by antiphlogistics.

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