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Acetanilides

Medical Definition:	N-Phenylacetamide. Precursor of many drugs, dyes and other compounds in chemical synthesis; formerly used as analgesic and antipyretic, but often causes lethal methemoglobinemia. Synonyms: acetylaniline; acetylaminobenzene; antifebrin.
Also Called:	Acetanilide

Acetanilides Categories.

	Acetaminophen - Analgesic antipyretic derivative of acetanilide. It has weak anti-inflammatory properties and is used as a common analgesic, but may cause liver, blood cell, and kidney damage.
	Diamfenetide - Anthelmintic. It has been shown to be useful in fasciola infections in sheep.
	Etidocaine - A local anesthetic with rapid onset and long action, similar to BUPIVACAINE.
	Inosine Pranobex - An alkylamino-alcohol complex of inosine used in the treatment of a variety of viral infections. Unlike other antiviral agents, it acts by modifying or stimulating cell-mediated immune processes rather than acting on the virus directly.
	Lidocaine - A local anesthetic and cardiac depressant used as an antiarrhythmia agent. Its actions are more intense and its effects more prolonged than those of procaine but its duration of action is shorter than that of bupivacaine or prilocaine.
	Phenacetin - 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)
	Trimecaine - Acetanilide derivative used as a local anesthetic.

Acetanilides Medical Definitions and Terms

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