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Antirheumatic means

Antirheumatic means (antirheumatica) – medicines with the immunodepressive, anesthetizing and antiinflammatory action; are applied at collagenoses, inflammatory and degenerative diseases of a musculoskeletal system (gold drugs, glucocorticoids, derivatives of phenylacetic acid, a diklofen, drugs of a salicylic, quinolinic, pyrazolon row).

 
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