anti-inflammatory
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See also: antiinflammatory
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From anti- + inflammatory.
Noun
[edit]anti-inflammatory (plural anti-inflammatories)
- (pharmacology) An agent that prevents or counteracts inflammation.
Usage notes
[edit]- anti-inflammatory is several times more common than antiinflammatory in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid doubling a vowel except after short prefixes.[2]
Translations
[edit]agent that prevents or counteracts inflammation
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Adjective
[edit]anti-inflammatory (comparative more anti-inflammatory, superlative most anti-inflammatory)
- (pharmacology) Preventing or counteracting inflammation.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]preventing or counteracting inflammation
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References
[edit]- ^ (antiinflammatory*3),anti-inflammatory at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov