See Also: Anti-inflammatory(medicine)
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory(medicine)
Anti-inflammatory agent(medicine)
Anti-inflammatory drugs(health)
anti-inflammatory agent, topical(medicine)
anti-inflammatory agent, non-steroidal(medicine)
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug(medicine)
anti-inflammatory agent, steroidal(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
snuff-box(medicine)

Anti-inflammatory agent (medicine) and snuff(1) (iou)


Anti-inflammatory agent (medicine)


anti-inflammatory agent
Agents that counteract or suppress the inflammatory process. An antirheumatic agent or inflammation mediator, both endogenous and exogenous substances used to counteract the inflammatory process or alleviate or prevent rheumatic diseases, and the compounds that mediate the inflammation process.


snuff(1) (iou)



snuff noun1. See also SNOFF. LME.
[Origin unkn. Sense 2 may be assoc. with SNUFF noun2.]
The charred part of the wick of a candle or lamp. LME.
A. Trollope She was going out like the snuff of a candle.
b. fig. A feeble or dying light. Also, something insignificant or ephemeral. arch. L16.
W. S. Gilbert You don't care the snuff of a candle.
c. The nozzle of a lamp, holding the wick. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
A fit of indignation; a huff, a rage; umbrage, offence. Now Scot. M16.
S. Pepys They go up in snuffe to bed without taking..leave of them. R. L. Stevenson Dinnae fly up in the snuff at me.
A portion of a drink left at the bottom of a cup. L16-M18.
Comb.: snuff-dish a dish to hold the snuff of candles or lamps.
snuffless adjective leaving no snuff L19.