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antipyrotic

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an⋅ti⋅py⋅rot⋅ic

  [an-tee-pahy-rot-ik, an-tahy-] Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology
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–adjective
1. relieving the pain and stimulating the healing of burns.
–noun
2. an antipyrotic agent.
Origin:
1830–40; anti- + Gk pyrōtikós burning, equiv. to pyrō-, verbid s. of pyroûn to burn + -tikos -tic
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antipyrotic an·ti·py·rot·ic (ān'tē-pī-rŏt'ĭk, ān'tī-)
adj.
Relieving the pain and promoting the healing of superficial burns.

an'ti·py·rot'ic n.

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