antipyrin (an"te-pi'rin)

Syn.: anodyrin, dimethyl oxy quin i zin. An artificial alkaloid, CuHi2N30. First obtained by L. Knorr of Erlangen. A white crystalline powder _ soluble in water and in alcohol. It was introduced into medicine as an antipyretic by Filehne in 1881. a. camphorate. A compound of a. and camphoric acid. Two forms, the acid and the 59 neutral, are said to be antipyretic and ant hidrotic. a. chloral hydrate. Mono chloral a. (CiarLsNuOsCla); also known as hypnal. It is antipyrin combined with one molecule of hydrated chloral. Its action resembles that of chloral, a. man delate. Tu ol, CiiHi2N2O.C«H5CH(OH)- COOH, used in whooping-cough. a. salicylate. Salipyrin, C18H18N2O4. It has the properties of antipyrin and salicylic acid. a. salol. A mixture of equal parts of a. and salol fused together; used as an antiseptic and hemostatic, dichloral-a. A hypnotic, C11H12N2O + 2(CCl3- CH(OH)2). [U. S. Ph.] [Gr., anti, against, + pyr, fever.]