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Webster 1913 Edition

Antiperiodic

Anˊti-peˊri-od′ic

(ănˊtĭ-pēˊrĭ-ŏd′ĭk)

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Noun.

(Med.)

A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.