单词 | counter-irritant |
释义 | counter-irritantn. Medicine. A medical appliance used to produce irritation of the surface of the body, in order to counteract disease of more deeply-seated or distant parts. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > counter-irritant preparations > [noun] empasm1657 empasma1708 counter-irritant1854 1854 T. B. Macaulay in Encycl. Brit. V. 766/1 Counter-irritants are of as great use in moral as in physical diseases. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxix. 336 She afforded him no counter-irritant. 1889 Boy's Own Paper 24 Aug. 747/2 I felt as if a flogging would even be welcome as a counter-irritant to mental pain. Derivatives counter-ˈirritate v. (transitive) . ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Counter-irritate, -irritation. counter-irriˈtation n. irritation artificially produced in order to counteract the action of disease. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [noun] > other miscellaneous treatments majoration1626 relaxant1661 diaeresis1706 blistering1711 Perkinism1798 tranquillizing1801 tractoration1803 tractorism1827 moxibustion1833 traction1841 remediation1850 moxocausis1857 bed-rest1872 aerotherapeutics1876 aerotherapy1876 metallotherapy1877 block1882 counter-irritation1882 bacteriotherapy1886 mechanotherapy1890 mobilization1890 seismotherapy1901 bacterization1902 replacement therapy1902 biotherapy1912 occupational therapy1915 protein therapy1917 psychophysicotherapeutics1922 recovery programme1922 plombage1933 bacteriostasis1936 oestrogenization1960 hyperalimentation1962 vegetablization1963 pain management1966 palliative care1967 gene therapy1970 1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Counter-irritation, the production of irritation, redness, vesication, or destruction of the skin, for the purpose of favourably influencing diseases of deeper seated or distant parts, by modifying the nutrition or mode of action of their structures. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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