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‖ hypercatharsis Path.|ˌhaɪpəkəˈθɑːsɪs|
[a. Gr. ὑπερκάθαρσις: see hyper- 5 and catharsis.]
Excessive or violent purging, esp. as induced by the use of drugs.
1681tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Vocab. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. viii. 306 If..a Hypercatharsis follow Purging. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 144 This Rosin..will..cause sickness at Stomach..and Hypercatharsis. 1876Bartholow Mat. Med. (1879) 448 Occasionally profuse watery evacuations have been produced by it, and rarely severe hypercatharsis.
So hypercaˈthartic a., causing hypercatharsis, violently cathartic; n. a medicine of this nature.
[1657Physical Dict., Hypercathartica, most violent purges: too purging.] 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Hypercatharticks (in Physic), purges that work too violently. 1855Mayne Expos. Lex., Hypercatharticus,..hypercathartic. |