medicamentallyadv.
/ˌmɛdᵻkəˈmɛntl̩i/, U.S. /ˌmɛdəkəˈmɛn(t)əli/ After the manner of medicines; in respect of medical or medicinal properties.Rare in early use.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adverb]
medicamentally1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. v. 85 The substance of gold is indeed invincible by the powerfullest action of naturall heat,..not only alimentally..but also medicamentally . View more context for this quotation
1884 Notes & Queries 15 Mar. 210 The fish is..more wholesome medicamentally, but not so toothsome.
1975 Basic Res. Cardiol. 70 671 The comparison of the values of dogs with sufficient circulation at the end of the experiments and those dogs with medicamentally or mechanically supported circulation at this time showed a more increased water content.
1992 Reprod. in Domest. Animals 27 290 These findings are interpreted as indicator for a medicamentally induced regressive adrenocortical transformation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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