nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug

Questions about nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug

What does nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug mean?

nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug means "an anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids".

What is another word for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug?

Close synonyms include nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory, NSAID. 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 nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug a common word?

nonsteroidal 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.