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单词 embrocation
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embrocationn.

/ɛmbrəʊˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: Also 1600s embrochation.
Etymology: noun of action < medieval Latin embrocāre: see embrocate v. and -ation suffix.
Medicine.
1. The action of embrocating. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > [noun] > treatment by bathing, sprinkling, or fomenting
fomenta1398
fomentationa1400
embrocation1543
irrigation1617
pump-bathing1744
dry pumping1840
nebulization1968
perifusion1969
1543 B. Traheron Interpr. Straunge Wordes in tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. sig. ζζ.vv/1 It is an embrocation when we droppe downe liquor from an higher place, vpon some parte of the body.
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxvi. xxx. 1063 An Embroche, or Embrocation is a watering.
2. A liquid used for bathing or moistening any diseased part; now usually restricted to those applied by rubbing; a liniment.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > liniment
liniment1543
embrocation1583
embroch1585
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. ii. 3 Embrocations (that is decoctions made of certaine things to poure vpon anye member..).
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxviii. 253 He bathed the doctor's face with an embrocation.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic i. 3 Drugs and soporific embrocations.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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