单词 | hydragogue |
释义 | hydragogueadj.n. A. adj. Of medicines: Having the property of removing accumulations of water or serum, or of causing watery evacuations. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > hydragogue hydragogue1637 hydragogal1652 hydragogical1675 hydragogic1712 1637 T. Venner Censure in Via Recta 340 A fitting hydragog medicine to evacuate the reliques of the water. 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 104 An Hydragogue Draught. 1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (1877) 222 Gamboge acts as a drastic and hydragogue purgative. B. n. A hydragogue medicine or drug. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > hydragogue hydragogue1658 hydrotic1681 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Hydragogy Hydragogues are Medicines that are prepared to draw forth the Water from any Hydropical parts. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) All sudorific, aperitive, and diuretic Medicines, are Hydragogues. 1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica x. 393 It was formerly employed as a hydragogue in passive dropsies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < |
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