Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing redness, as of the skin.
- noun A substance that irritates the skin, causing redness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making red; producing redness, as a medicinal application on the skin.
- noun An application which causes redness or hyperemia of the skin where it is applied, as a mustard plaster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Making red.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Making
red . - noun medicine A
substance fortopical application that produces redness of the skin, e.g. by dilating the capillaries.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a medicine for external application that produces redness of the skin
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Peru balsam is used extensively as a local protectant, rubefacient, parasiticide in certain skin diseases, antiseptic, and applied externally as an ointment, or in alcoholic solutions.
Chapter 43 1990
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When applied in lotions every night for five or six times consecutively, it will heal indolent ulcers; and its rubefacient effects serve instead of those produced externally by mustard.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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These objects are best attained by means of the galvanic current, which should be employed of sufficient intensity to produce a rubefacient effect.
The Electric Bath George M. Schweig
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Therapeutically it is used externally in leprosy, old ulcers and to destroy corns, but on account of its rubefacient and vesicant qualities it is necessary to use it cautiously.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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In America the leaves are used as a poultice in otitis, their action being rubefacient.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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The juice is used externally as a rubefacient in rheumatic affections of the joints.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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According to Mérat, the Bedouins use it as a rubefacient, and it is applied in sciatica, forming a substitute for cantharides.
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The powdered leaves are rubefacient, and act as a substitute for cantharides.
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This has also a rubefacient and epispastic operation.
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It is said to be extremely acrid -- even small doses producing a great disturbance of the stomach; employed as a rubefacient in fevers, gout, and rheumatism, and as a vesicatory in removing corns from the feet.
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