Febrifuge Definition

fĕbrə-fyo͝oj
noun
Any substance for reducing fever; antipyretic.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Reducing fever.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Febrifuge

Noun

Singular:
febrifuge
Plural:
febrifuges

Origin of Febrifuge

  • From French fébrifuge, from Latin febris (“fever”) + fugāre (“to drive away”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin febris fever –fuge

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Febrifuge Sentence Examples

  • The bark is of some value as a tonic and febrifuge.

  • This is also the case with the cinchona febrifuge prepared from C. succirubra.

  • The species between Caravaya and the headwaters of the Huallaga yield very little of the febrifuge alkaloid.

  • But the forests of Huanuco and Huamalios abound in species yielding the grey bark of commerce, which is rich in cinchonine, an alkaloid efficacious as a febrifuge, though inferior to quinine.

  • The substance was discovered about the year 1835 by Hugh Rodie, a surgeon in Demerara, who used it as a febrifuge in.

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