anti-inflammatory drug

1. 1.

   a medicine intended to reduce inflammation

   Synonymsanti-inflammatory

   Broadermedicine

   NarrowerCox-2 inhibitorhydroxychloroquinenonsteroidal anti-inflammatoryoxyphenbutazonephenylbutazoneprednisoloneprednisonedexamethasone

Questions about anti-inflammatory drug

What does anti-inflammatory drug mean?

anti-inflammatory drug means "a medicine intended to reduce inflammation".

What is another word for anti-inflammatory drug?

Close synonyms include anti-inflammatory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anti-inflammatory drug a common word?

anti-inflammatory drug is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.