Febrifuge (Noun)
Meaning
Any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- Aspirin has been used for years as a febrifuge to alleviate fevers associated with the flu.
- The doctor prescribed an antipyretic medicine that also functions as a febrifuge to lower her extremely high body temperature.
- Willow bark was an ancient natural febrifuge because it contained salicin, which decreases fever.
- A febrifuge was administered intravenously to the very ill patient suffering with severe malaria and an elevated fever.
- During the fever, his feverish grandmother resorted to herbal tea recipes passed down from her great-grandmother that acted as a natural febrifuge.