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laxative /ˈlaksətɪv /adjective(Chiefly of a drug or medicine) tending to stimulate or facilitate evacuation of the bowels: laxative drugs the laxative properties of sodium sulphate...- If your baby is bottlefed and constipated, your doctor may suggest mixing a small amount of laxative medicine into the formula.
- That resulted in two stomach pumpings in the same week, and a more unfortunate and embarrassing incident of severe diarrhoea after swallowing 16 laxative pills.
- When I say hot chocolate, I mean used coffee grounds laced with crushed chocolate laxative tablets and cocoa powder.
nounA medicine which has a laxative effect: he may prescribe a laxative to ease the congestion...- If the diverticulitis is not severe, treatment will be with painkillers, antibiotics, laxatives and dietary advice.
- When taking a medical history, it is also important to take a dietary history to ask about the use of laxatives or diuretics.
- Does she take laxatives or diuretics to lose weight?
Synonyms purgative, lenitive, aperient, cathartic, evacuant rare eccoprotic Origin Late Middle English: via Old French laxatif, -ive or late Latin laxativus, from Latin laxare 'loosen' (from laxus 'loose'). |