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Another word for laxative

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Modifier
  1. Antonyms:
Noun
      1. To wet through and through; soak.
      2. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).
      3. To provide with something in great abundance; surfeit:
      1. A specified quantity of a therapeutic agent, such as medicine, prescribed to be taken at one time or at stated intervals.
      2. The amount of radiation administered as therapy to a given site.
      3. An ingredient added, especially to wine, to impart flavor or strength.
      1. Explicitly set forth; definite:
      2. Clear or detailed in communicating:
      3. Limited, distinctive, or unique:
      1. A drug or course of medical treatment used to restore health:
      2. Restoration of health; recovery from disease:
      3. Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation:
      1. Something, such as a drug or a bandage, that is used to treat a symptom, disease, injury, or other condition.
      2. Something that corrects an evil, fault, or error.
      3. The means of obtaining redress of a wrong or enforcement of a right.
      1. An agent that promotes recovery from injury or ailment; a medicine.
      1. To clear (a container or space, for example) of something unclean or unwanted:
      2. To remove or eliminate (unwanted physical matter):
      3. To rid (a person or thing) of something unwanted:
      1. Inducing catharsis; purgative.
      2. An agent for purging the bowels, especially a laxative.
      1. Tending to increase the discharge of urine.
      2. A substance or drug that tends to increase the discharge of urine.
      1. Tending to cleanse or purge, especially causing evacuation of the bowels.
      2. A purgative agent or medicine; a cathartic.
      1. Gently stimulating evacuation of the bowels; laxative.
      2. A mild laxative.
      1. A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic.
      2. The art or profession of medicine.
      3. To act on as a cathartic.
    See also:

    medicine

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Sentence Examples

  • Internally, sulphur is a mild laxative, being converted in the intestine into sulphides.

  • On the French Alps a sweet exudation is found on the small branchlets of young larches in June and July, resembling manna in taste and laxative properties, and known as Manna de Briancon or Manna Brigantina; it occurs in small whitish irregular granular masses, which are removed in the morning before they are too much dried by the sun; this manna seems to differ little in composition from the sap of the tree, which also contains mannite; its cathartic powers are weaker than those of the manna of the manna ash (Fraximus ornus), but it is employed in France for the same purposes.

  • Manna possesses mildly laxative properties, and on account of its sweet taste is employed as a mild aperient for children.

  • In the milder varieties of this complaint, such as those occurring sporadically, and where the symptoms are probably due to matters in the bowels setting up the dysenteric irritation, the employment of diaphoretic medicines is to be recommended, and the administration of such a laxative as castor oil, to which a small quantity of laudanum has been added, will often, by removing the source of the mischief, arrest the attack; but a method of treatment more to be recommended is the use of salines in large doses, such as one drachm of sodium sulphate from four to eight times a day.

  • laxative abuse.

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