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A white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic
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acetanilid
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n. (alternative form of acetanilide English)
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n. a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic [syn: acetanilide , phenylacetamide ]
Usage examples of acetanilid.
Never take any sleeping powders except upon the advice of a physician, for the majority of these sleeping powders contain some harmful drug, as morphine, codeine, phenacetin or acetanilid.
In the end, a reporter for Collier's magazine, together with a government chemist, finally exposed the elixir as an addictively lethal blend of chloroform, cocaine hydrochloride, acetanilid, and botanicals.