ANTIPERIODIC
\ˌantɪpˌi͡əɹɪˈɒdɪk], \ˌantɪpˌiəɹɪˈɒdɪk], \ˌa_n_t_ɪ_p_ˌiə_ɹ_ɪ__ˈɒ_d_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of ANTIPERIODIC
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
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A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
By Oddity Software
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A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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an-ti-p[=e]-ri-od'ik, adj. destroying the periodicity of diseases, such as ague, whose attacks recur at regular intervals: a drug with such an effect, esp. cinchona bark and its alkaloids (quinine), and arsenic.
By Thomas Davidson
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A remedy which possesses the power of arresting morbid periodical movements ;-e. g. the sulphate of quinia in intermittents.
By Robley Dunglison
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Serviceable against malarial or periodic recurrences.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Efficacious against the periodical recurrence of paroxysms, especially those due to malarial infection.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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