Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A medicine that promotes excretion; an eliminative.
- Relating to excretion or to any of the excretory organs: said of a disease which affects these functions or organs, or of a remedy which promotes excretion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine Any
remedy that promotesdischarges .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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