Antipyretic
WordNet
adjective
(1) Preventing or alleviating fever
noun
(2) Any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever
WiktionaryText
Adjective
antipyretic
- that reduces fever
- 1999, Otto Appenzeller, The Autonomic Nervous System, ISBN 0444825460, p. 486.
- The antipyretic action of AVP is limited mainly to its action in a precise location in the ventral septum, though there is some evidence for a similar action in the medial amygdala.
- 1999, Otto Appenzeller, The Autonomic Nervous System, ISBN 0444825460, p. 486.