eliminantn.adj.

1852 Provinc. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 12 May 235/1 Foreign bodies may be removed from the cornea, either by the action of the palpebral muscles and a constant flow of tears, or by the ulceration of the tissue immediately in contact with them, assisted by the preceding eliminants.

1855 Lancet 21 Apr. 412/2 Of the 1104 hospital cases—689 were treated by alteratives, 231 by astringents, 84 by stimulants, and 100 by eliminants.

1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 417 Recommended as an eliminant in malignant cholera.

1907 Practitioner Oct. 557 Stoeltzner states that the intestinal mucosa acts both as absorbent and eliminant of lime-salts.

1976 E. L. Saenger in C. F. Frey Initial Managem. Trauma Patient xiv. 223 The use of eliminants is important. Inhalation and ingestion of particles almost always occur together.

2005 G. McKeith Living Food for Health ix. 87 It [sc. parsley] is an eliminant that I have even used..to aid the dissolving of gallstones and in cases of gout.

1853 W. R. Hamilton Lect. Quarternions vii. 518 There exists a connexion between the theories of quarternions and of determinants; or of eliminants, as some prefer to call them.

1881 W. S. Burnside & A. W. Panton Theory of Equations xiii. 140 The quantity R is..called their Resultant or Eliminant.

1902 J. W. Mellor Higher Math. for Students of Chem. & Physics x. 405 This determinant is called the eliminant of the equations.

1992 P. Ribenboim in A. J. Baker & R. J. Plymen p-Adic Methods & their Applic. 75 Consider the following matrix (the eliminant of f, g ) of m + n rows and columns: [formula] with n rows with the coefficients a_i and m rows with the coefficients b_j.

1853 F. W. Headland Action Med. in Syst. iii. 283 True or Eliminant Sialagogues.—These are medicines which..increase their [sc. the salivary glands] natural secretion while passing through them.

1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 238 The curative power..is..due to its eliminant action on the mucous and cutaneous surfaces.

1904 Jrnl. Adv. Therapeutics 22 137 It [sc. direct or constant current] is both destructive and eliminant to injurious and useless products.

1944 Times 17 June 6/1 (advt.) An effervescent balanced saline. Laxative & eliminant. Tones internal functions.

1995 F. M. Snowden Naples in Time of Cholera iii. 124 After extensive trials as the dominant therapy throughout the West in both the first and second pandemics, eliminant therapy fell into disfavour.