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A medicine producing ‘extenuation’ or emaciation.
(Disused.) A substance used to counteract obesity.
a substance that (supposedly) prevents the absorption of starch from the intestine or that inhibits the breakdown of starch, used esp. as an aid to…
A synthetic drug used in treating obesity which is an inhibitor of gastric and pancreatic lipase activity, reducing the proportion of dietary fat…