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单词 counter-irritant
释义

counter-irritantn.

Etymology: < counter- prefix 2b + irritant n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˌcounter-ˈirritant.
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.
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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) .
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1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Counter-irritate, -irritation.
counter-irriˈtation n. irritation artificially produced in order to counteract the action of disease.
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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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