purgative+medicine
11purgative — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English purgatif, from Late Latin purgativus, from Latin purgatus, past participle Date: 15th century purging or tending to purge II. noun Date: 1576 a purging medicine ; cathartic …
12purgative — 1. adjective (capable of) purging 2. noun something, such as a substance or medicine, that purges; laxative …
13Magnesium deficiency (medicine) — This article is about magnesium deficiency in humans and animals. For the condition of low blood magnesium levels, see Hypomagnesemia. For the condition of poor magnesium nutrition in plants, see Magnesium deficiency (agriculture). Magnesium… …
14purg — purgative …
15cathartic — 1. Relating to catharsis. 2. An agent having purgative action. * * * ca·thar·tic kə thärt ik adj of, relating to, or producing catharsis cathartic n a cathartic medicine: PURGATIVE * * * n …
16purgation — Evacuation of the bowels with the aid of a purgative or cathartic. SYN: catharsis (1). [L. purgatio] * * * pur·ga·tion .pər gā shən n 1) the act of purging specif vigorous evacuation of the bowels (as from the action of a cathartic or an… …
17aloe — 1. The dried juice from the leaves of plants of the genus A. (family Liliaceae), from which are derived aloin, resin, emodin, and volatile oils. 2. The dried juice from the leaves of A. perryi (socotrine aloes), of A. barbadensis (Barbados and… …
18croton oil — A fixed oil expressed from the seeds of Croton tiglium (family Euphorbiaceae), an East Indian shrub; used as an irritant purgative, and externally as a counterirritant and vesicant. * * * croton oil krōt ən n a viscid acrid fixed oil from an… …
19Jatropha — A genus of plants of the family Euphorbiaceae; a poisonous plant found in eastern Africa and the West Indies. [G. iatros, physician, + trophe, nourishment] J. curcas barbados nut or physic nut, the seed of which furnishes a purgative oil similar… …
20resin — 1. An amorphous brittle substance consisting of the hardened secretion of a number of plants, probably derived from a volatile oil and similar to a stearoptene. 2. SYN: rosin. 3. A precipitate formed by the addition of water to certain tinctures …
