Acetanilide Definition

asətanəlīd
noun
A white, crystalline organic substance, C6H5NHCOCH3, produced by the action of acetic acid on aniline: it is used as a drug to lessen pain and fever, in making dyes, etc.
Webster's New World

(organic chemistry, pharmacology) The amide derived from acetic acid and aniline; once used medicinally as an analgesic and antipyretic.

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Synonyms:
  • phenylacetamide
  • acetanilid

Other Word Forms of Acetanilide

Noun

Singular:
acetanilide
Plural:
acetanilides

Origin of Acetanilide

Acetanilide Sentence Examples

  • When heated with aniline it yields phenol and acetanilide.

  • Pain may be stopped by removing the cause of irritation, as, for example, by the extraction of a carious tooth or by rendering the nerveendings insensitive to irritation, as by the application of cocaine; by preventing its transmission along the spinal cord by antipyrin, phenacetin, acetanilide, cocaine, &c.; or by dulling the perceptive centre in the brain by means of opium or its alkaloids, by anaesthetics, and probably also, to a certain extent, by antipyrin and its congeners.

  • Quinine was the first antipyretic used, and after the introduction of such preparations as antipyrin and acetanilide it may still be said to be the safest, though it is much less powerful.

  • Anilides, compounds in which the amino group is substituted by an acid radical, are prepared by heating aniline with certain acids; antifebrin or acetanilide is thus obtained from acetic acid and aniline.

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