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means A common anti-inflammatory painkiller that reduces pain, fever, and swelling by blocking the enzymes that produce inflammation-causing chemicals.

from A pharmacist's blend-word, built from pieces of its own chemical name: isobutylphenylpropionic acid. The syllables were stitched together — i-bu-pro-fen — to make a mouthful of chemistry pronounceable. It was developed by researchers in England in the 1960s searching for something gentler than existing anti-inflammatories, and the clipped, friendly-sounding name stuck once it went on sale in the 1970s.