Definitions for phenacetin

phenacetin phe·nac·e·tin

Spelling: [fuh-nas-i-tin]
IPA: /fəˈnæs ɪ tɪn/

Phenacetin is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 474 anagrams from letters in phenacetin (aceehinnpt).

Definitions for phenacetin

noun

  1. a white, slightly water-soluble, crystalline solid, C 10 H 13 NO 2 , used in medicine chiefly as an agent for checking or preventing fever or for relieving pain: withdrawn because of unfavorable side effects.

Origin of phenacetin

First recorded in 1885-90; phen(etidine) + acet(yl) + -in2

Examples for phenacetin

You might tell Andrews to bring me some phenacetin, will you, dear?

Her London doctor introduced her to a new drug, phenacetin, which worked wonders with the sore side and leg.

On October 19th I had my first attack of fever, which was not severe and soon yielded to phenacetin.

He fervently blessed the shortage of phenacetin that had forced him to take pilocarpin as a sweating substitute for fever.

For the headaches, phenacetin, alone or in combination with caffein and bromide of sodium, may be tried.

Acetanilid, sulphonal, phenacetin, and other drugs of this class may provoke like eruptions.

Some of these coal-tar remedies are Acetanilid, and Antipyrin, and phenacetin.

phenacetin, phenacetinum, is produced by the interaction of glacial acetic acid and para-phenetidin.

Remember that it is the manufacturers of phenacetin who say this.

I will with pleasure give you a bromide mixture or phenacetin if your head is bad.

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