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antiphlogistic

antiphlogistic adjective: counteracting inflammation.

Adjective

antiphlogistic (comparative more antiphlogistic, superlative most antiphlogistic)

  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.

Noun

antiphlogistic (plural antiphlogistics)

  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

antiphlogistic meaning in Tamil and Urdu

antiphlogistic in Tamil

வீக்கம் தணிக்கின்ற மருந்து, வீக்கம் அகற்றுகிற, வெப்புத்தணிக்கிற

antiphlogistic in Urdu

ورم, سوزش کم کرنے والا, دافِع سوزَش, دافِع وَرم, دافِع التِہاب

Forms of antiphlogistic

Adjective
comparativemore antiphlogistic
superlativemost antiphlogistic
Noun
pluralantiphlogistics

Origin of antiphlogistic

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

Questions about antiphlogistic

What does antiphlogistic mean?
Antiphlogistic means counteracting inflammation.
What is antiphlogistic in Tamil?
Antiphlogistic in Tamil is வீக்கம் தணிக்கின்ற மருந்து, வீக்கம் அகற்றுகிற, வெப்புத்தணிக்கிற. See Antiphlogistic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is antiphlogistic?
Antiphlogistic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antiphlogistic in the dictionary

  1. antiphilosophies
  2. antiphilosophy
  3. antiphishing
  4. antiphlogistian
  5. antiphlogistians
  6. antiphlogistic
  7. antiphlogistics
  8. antiphlogistine
  9. antiphlogiston
  10. antiphobic
  11. antiphon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antiphlogistic (page history and authors); antiphlogistic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); antiphlogistic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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