anti-inflammatory

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Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ inflammatory

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Noun[edit]

anti-inflammatory (plural anti-inflammatories)

  1. (pharmacology) An agent that prevents or counteracts inflammation.

Usage notes[edit]

  • anti-inflammatory is several times more common than antiinflammatory in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid doubling a vowel except after short prefixes.[2]

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Adjective[edit]

anti-inflammatory (comparative more anti-inflammatory, superlative most anti-inflammatory)

  1. (pharmacology) Preventing or counteracting inflammation.

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  1. ^ (antiinflammatory*3),anti-inflammatory at Google Ngram Viewer
  2. ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov