Phenacetin Definition

fēnasətin
noun
A white, crystalline powder, C2H5OC6H4NHCOCH3, used to reduce fever and to relieve headaches and muscular pains; acetophenetidin.
Webster's New World

Any of a class of analgesic and antipyretic drugs derived from acetanilide.

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Noun

Singular:
phenacetin
Plural:
phenacetins

Phenacetin Sentence Examples

  • Its most important derivative is phenacetin.

  • Amongst other antipyretics, the most important are quinine, phenacetin and antifebrin.

  • 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.

  • And antipyrin, phenacetin, aspirin and similar analgetics are commonly taken.

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