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antipernicious

antipernicious adjective: that counters a pernicious disease.

Adjective

antipernicious (not comparable)

  1. That counters a pernicious disease
    • antipernicious anemia factor

Origin of antipernicious

From anti- + pernicious.

Questions about antipernicious

What does antipernicious mean?
Antipernicious means that counters a pernicious disease.
What part of speech is antipernicious?
Antipernicious is an adjective.

Words near antipernicious in the dictionary

  1. antiperistases
  2. antiperistasis
  3. antiperistatic
  4. antiperistatical
  5. antipermeability
  6. antipernicious
  7. antiperovskite
  8. antiperovskites
  9. antiperoxidant
  10. antiperoxidase
  11. antiperoxidative

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