Phenacetin sentence example
phenacetin
- Its most important derivative is phenacetin.
- Amongst other antipyretics, the most important are quinine, phenacetin and antifebrin.
- Pain may be stopped by removing the cause of irritation, as, for example, by the extraction of a carious tooth or by rendering the nerveendings insensitive to irritation, as by the application of cocaine; by preventing its transmission along the spinal cord by antipyrin, phenacetin, acetanilide, cocaine, &c.; or by dulling the perceptive centre in the brain by means of opium or its alkaloids, by anaesthetics, and probably also, to a certain extent, by antipyrin and its congeners.
- And antipyrin, phenacetin, aspirin and similar analgetics are commonly taken.Advertisement