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Acetophenetidin

Acetophenetidin Definition & Meaning
Acetophenetidin Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Medical Term Acetophenetidin?

A non-prostaglandin synthase inhibitor. It was utilized extensively in a wide variety of analgesic mixtures, but its causal role in analgesic-abuse nephropathy led to its withdrawal from the market. (From Smith and Reynard, Textbook of Pharmacology,1991, p431)

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