Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, an excessive purging; action of the bowels excited by a violent cathartic.
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Examples
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In hypercatharsis, of old persons, hiccup supervening is not
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A convulsion, or hiccup, supervening upon hypercatharsis is bad.
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Twenty grains of the powdered root would produce emesis, sometimes followed by hypercatharsis.
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If given largely in insensibility of the stomach, liable to produce violent hypercatharsis and inflammation of stomach and bowels.
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Scammony, and other strong purges, are liable to produce hypercatharsis, if they are not nicely prepared, and accurately weighed, and are thence dangerous in common practice.
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