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LAXATIVE |
Purgative |
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CATHARTIC |
Purgative |
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EMETIC |
Stomach purgative |
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EPSOM |
Purgative, ...salts |
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EVACUATORY |
A purgative. |
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SALTS |
Purgative, Epsom ... |
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EVACUANT |
Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic. |
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PURGAMENT |
A cathartic; a purgative. |
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PURGATIVELY |
In a purgative manner. |
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SENNA |
Anne’s back with the purgative |
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DRASTIC |
A violent purgative. See Cathartic. |
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LENITIVE |
A mild purgative; a laxative. |
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ALOIN |
A bitter purgative principle in aloes. |
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EVACUATIVE |
Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative. |
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CATHARICAL |
Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool;
purgative. |
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GUTWORT |
A plant, Globularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in
Africa. |
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DIACATHOLICON |
A universal remedy; -- name formerly to a purgative
electuary. |
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ALOE |
The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a
purgative. |
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PHYSICAL |
Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine;
medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative. |
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JALAPIN |
A glucoside found in the stems of the jalap plant and
scammony. It is a strong purgative. |
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CONVOLVULIN |
A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a
convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy
mass of powerful purgative properties. |
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TURPETH |
The root of Ipom/a Turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar,
and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; -- sometimes
called vegetable turpeth. |
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CATHARTIN |
The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a
glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic
acid, and cathartina. |
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GRIPE |
To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching
and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain
purgative or indigestible substances. |
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SABADILLA |
A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale);
also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly
used in medicine as an emetic and purgative. |