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Definition of Cathartic
1. Noun. A purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels.
Specialized synonyms: Aloes, Bitter Aloes, Castor Oil, Epsom Salts, Laxative, Milk Of Magnesia, Rochelle Powder, Seidlitz Powder, Seidlitz Powders
Generic synonyms: Medicament, Medication, Medicinal Drug, Medicine
Derivative terms: Aperient, Purgative
2. Adjective. Emotionally purging.
3. Adjective. Emotionally purging (of e.g. art).
Category relationships: Art, Artistic Creation, Artistic Production
Similar to: Emotional
4. Adjective. Strongly laxative.
Similar to: Laxative
Derivative terms: Catharsis, Evacuate, Purgative, Purge
Definition of Cathartic
1. a. Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.
2. n. A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
Definition of Cathartic
1. Adjective. purgative; inducing catharsis ¹
2. Adjective. That releases emotional tension, especially after an overwhelming experience ¹
3. Noun. A laxative ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cathartic
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Medical Definition of Cathartic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cathartic
Literary usage of Cathartic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody: an Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase (1888)
"Alterative cathartic,-Powder.—Rochelle salts, five ozs.; cream-of-tartar, 2 ozs.
; sulphur, ... Alterative, Tonic, and cathartic Bitters,—Best rye whisky, ..."
2. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1862)
"It is employed theoretically in the treatment of the former disease, on account
of the astringent as well as cathartic virtue of this remedy, ..."
3. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"This will be found a mild, yet effectual cathartic, particularly val- abie for
children, and grown persons of a dyspeptic, or other weak habit of body. ..."
4. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"cathartic SALTS General Statement.—A number of salts are not absorbed readily
... The cathartic action is mainly the result of the retention of fluid in the ..."
5. Materia Medica: Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing for by Walter Arthur Bastedo (1918)
"cathartic MEASURES cathartic measures are laxative when employed to produce soft
stools of ... The term aperient is sometimes employed for any cathartic, ..."
6. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"Narrow-leaved wood spurge. Hab. South Europe. cathartic. ... Juice applied locally,
said to produce uterine contraction ; internally an emetic, cathartic, ..."
7. Cretan Elements in the Cults and Ritual of Apollo by Mary Hamilton Swindler (1913)
"cathartic ELEMENTS. cathartic ritual in Greece rose to a position ... cathartic
ritual was associated from earliest times with chthonian powers.1 When it ..."
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