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as·pi·rin
(ăs′pər-ĭn, -prĭn)n. pl. aspirin or as·pi·rins
1. A white, crystalline compound, C9H8O4, derived from salicylic acid and commonly used in tablet form to relieve pain and reduce fever and inflammation. It is also used as an antiplatelet agent. Also called acetylsalicylic acid.
2. A tablet of aspirin.
[Originally a trademark.]
Word History: The English word aspirin comes from the German trademark Aspirin, which is made up of elements from an obsolete German term for acetylsalicylic acid, acetylierte Spirsäure, literally, "acetylated Spiraea-acid." Acetylsalicylic acid was first isolated in a species of meadowsweet, Filipendula ulmaria, which was formerly classified in the genus Spiraea, the genus that includes many of the garden plants called spirea.
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aspirin
(ˈæsprɪn)n, pl -rin or -rins
1. (Pharmacology) a white crystalline compound widely used in the form of tablets to relieve pain and fever, to reduce inflammation, and to prevent strokes. Formula: CH3COOC6H4COOH. Chemical name: acetylsalicylic acid
2. (Pharmacology) a tablet of aspirin
[C19: from German, from A(cetyl) + Spir(säure) spiraeic acid (modern salicylic acid) + -in; see also spiraea]
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as•pi•rin
(ˈæs pər ɪn, -prɪn)n., pl. -rin, -rins.
1. a white, crystalline substance, C9H8O4, derivative of salicylic acid, used as an anti-inflammatory agent and to relieve pain and fever; acetylsalicylic acid.
2. a tablet of this.
[1899; < German, orig. a trademark, =A(cetyl) acetyl + Spir(säure) salicylic acid (see spirea) + -in -in1]
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as·pi·rin
(ăs′pər-ĭn, ăs′prĭn) A white crystalline compound derived from salicylic acid and used as a drug to relieve fever and pain. Also called acetylsalicylic acid.
Did You Know? The forest may not look like a drugstore. Nevertheless, plants have always provided humans with powerful medicine. For example, we no longer eat the bark of willow trees when we have headaches, but for thousands of years, people in pain did just that. About 100 years ago, scientists studying willow bark figured out how it could be used to make acetylsalicylic acid, better known as aspirin. Aspirin and willow bark get broken down in the stomach to supply us with the same powerful painkiller. Quinine, which people use to control the fevers of the disease malaria, originally came from the cinchona tree. Just recently, researchers developed a new cancer drug, taxol, from the needles of yew trees. In fact, about 45 percent of all cancer drugs are either natural products or slightly altered natural chemicals that scientists tinkered with to make more potent. Researchers still study traditional plant remedies in the hopes of finding even more medicines from nature.
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| Noun | 1. |  aspirin - the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning plateletsaspirin powder, headache powder - a powdered form of aspirin buffered aspirin, Bufferin - aspirin coated with a substance capable of neutralizing acid (trade name Bufferin) enteric-coated aspirin - aspirin that is treated to pass through the stomach unaltered and to dissolve in the intestines salicylate - a salt of salicylic acid (included in several commonly used drugs) 2-hydroxybenzoic acid, salicylic acid - a white crystalline substance with a bitter aftertaste; used as a fungicide or in making aspirin or dyes or perfumes |
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Translations
أسْبِرينأَسْبيرين
аспирин
aspirin
aspirin
aspiriin
aspiriini
aspirin
aszpirin
aspirín
アスピリン
아스피린
aspirinas
aspirīns
aspirineaspirientje
aspirină
aspirín
aspirin
ยาแอสไพริน
thuốc aspirin
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
aspirin
n → Kopfschmerztablette f, → Aspirin® nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
aspirin
(ˈӕspərin) noun a (tablet of a) kind of pain-killing drug. The child has a fever – give her some/an aspirin.
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aspirin
→ أَسْبيرين aspirin aspirin Aspirin ασπιρίνη aspirina aspiriini aspirine aspirin aspirina アスピリン 아스피린 aspirine aspirin aspiryna aspirina аспирин aspirin ยาแอสไพริน aspirin thuốc aspirin 阿司匹林Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
as·pi·rin
n. aspirina, ácido acetilsalicílico.
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aspirin
n aspirinaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.