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(obsolete) A compound purgative medicine of which aloes is a chief ingredient.
n
(medicine, archaic) A restorative remedy; a powerful stimulant.
n
(obsolete) An apophlegmatic medicine.
adj
(medicine) without an increase in temperature
adj
(medicine) Reducing stiffness; laxative.
v
(transitive) To administer contraception, especially to a population of wild animals
n
(medicine, dated) Any medicine that dissolves obstructions.
adj
Britain standard spelling of diarrheic.
n
(medicine, dated) A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humours; a discutient.
n
(pharmacology) Any of a class of psychedelic drugs characterized by intense feelings of depersonalization, derealization, and analgesia.
n
A powerful, fast-acting purgative medicine.
n
(medicine) Any remedy that promotes discharges.
adj
(medicine, dated) Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so remove obstructions; deobstruent.
adj
(medicine) That is both emetic and cathartic
adj
(medicine) Serving to palliate; palliative, alleviative.
adj
(obsolete, rare) Relieving the harshness or bitterness of certain bodily humours; (loosely), soothing, emollient.
n
(archaic) A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.
n
A specific formulation of rhubarb powder, formerly used as a laxative.
n
(epidemiology) The indirect protection against the spread of a contagious disease in a given population caused by the immunity of a significant proportion of the population to that particular disease; the immunity may have been obtained through having survived the infection or through vaccination.
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(medicine, rare) Alternative form of hiera picra [(pharmacology, now historical) A warming cathartic medicine made from aloes and canella.]
n
(pathology) Violent purging
n
(medicine, obsolete) Any agent, such as mercury, iodine, etc., that promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions.
adj
(obsolete, rare) softening; relaxing
adj
(medicine, obsolete) emollient; softening
adj
(obsolete, of a medicine) Gently laxative.
n
Any type of numbing or soothing drug.
n
(dated, British Army military slang) A laxative pill.
adj
Of or relating to opiates.
n
(medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
n
A painkiller; a medicine which soothes or relieves pain; specifically the traditional patent medicine consisting of camphorated tincture of opium.
n
(obsolete) Any medicine supposed to expel phlegm.
n
(medicine) Any medicine that promotes the growth of flesh.
adj
(medicine, obsolete) soporific
adj
(medicine) Tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges.
n
(medicine, obsolete) A sternutatory; a substance that induces sneezing.
n
A type of laxative made from figs.
n
(medicine, obsolete) The supposed influence of emanations from the soil in producing disease.
n
(informal, slang, body building) testosterone
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