Medicine. A medicine or medicinal application serving to repress an infection, swelling, eruption, etc., or to drive away an unhealthy bodily…

Medicine. Of a medicine or treatment: that drives a morbid humour, fluid, etc., back to its source or away or inwards from a swollen or diseased…

Medicine. = repercussive, adj. 1. Cf. repellent, adj. 1. Obsolete.

With present participle, forming adjectives, as back-acting (cf. back-acter n. at affix 2), back-blowing, back-coming, back-driving, back-glancing…

Medicine. = repercussive, adj. 1. Cf. repel, v. 1. Obsolete.

Of a medicine or treatment: that causes revulsion (revulsion, n. 1); revulsive.

Having the quality of driving away; averting; prophylactic.

Medicine. = repercussive, adj. 1.

Medicine. = repercussive, adj. 1. Cf. repellent, adj. 1. Obsolete.

Medicine. Producing derivation; see derivation, n.1 1c.

Medicine. Drawing off or away (inflammation, fluid, etc.); = derivative, adj. 1b.