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antiphlogistic en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

Forms

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more antiphlogistic	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
most antiphlogistic	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

Translations (3)

it antiflogistico (counteracting inflammation) · pt antiflogístico (counteracting inflammation) · ca antiinflamatori (counteracting inflammation)

antiphlogistic en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

Forms

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antiphlogistics	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (3)

pt antiflogístico (plant or remedy that reduces inflammation) · ca antiinflamatori (plant or remedy that reduces inflammation) · it antiflogistico (plant or remedy that reduces inflammation)