Word Meanings - ANTIPERIODIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to ANTIPERIODIC)

• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• POSSESSIVE
  Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• INTERMITTENTLY
  With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.
• PERIODICALLY
  In a periodical manner.
• POSSESSIONARY
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• RETURNER
  One who returns.
• POSSESSOR
  One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor. "Possessors of eternal glory." Law. As if he had been possessor of the whole world.
• PREVENTIONAL
  Tending to prevent.
• DISEASEDNESS
  The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. T. Burnet.
• PERIODICALNESS
  Periodicity.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• DISPOSSESS
  To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• REPOSSESS
  To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of , to acquire again .
• WEIL'S DISEASE
  An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.
• UNPOSSESS
  To be without, or to resign, possession of.
• DISPOSSESSOR
  One who dispossesses. Cowley.