Liniments synonyms

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ointments
A fatty substance applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes; salve; unguent
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oils
Oil paint.
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lotions
A protective or restorative liquid or cream applied to the skin.
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balms
An aromatic salve or oil.
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creams
Any of various foods or confections made of cream or having a creamy consistency
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salves (related)
An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
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medicines (related)
Something that serves as a remedy or corrective:
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Liniments Sentence Examples

  • Many alcoholic liniments are therefore employed for the relief of pain, especially muscular pains, as in lumbago and other forms of so-called "muscular rheumatism."

  • The prescriptions are for a great variety of ailments and afflictionsdiseases of the eye and the stomach, sores and broken bones, to make the hair grow, to keep away snakes, fleas, &c. Purgatives and diuretics are particularly numerous, and the medicines take the form of pillules, draughts, liniments, fumigations, &c. The prescriptions are often fanciful and may thus bear some absurd relation to the disease to be cured, but generally they would be to some extent effective.

  • In chronic rheumatism the chief remedies are salicylate of soda, and its allies iodide of potassium, guaiacum and sulphur, while massage, liniments and baths are beneficial as local applications.

  • Liniments containing opium, belladonna or aconite rubbed into the affected part will often soothe the most severe local pain.

  • The drug is largely employed as a counterirritant, the pharmacopoeial liniments being very useful applications.

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