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Definition of Liniments
1. liniment [n] - See also: liniment
Medical Definition of Liniments
1. Heat-generating liquids that are thinner than ointments and are applied to the skin with friction. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liniments
Literary usage of Liniments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Pharmacy for Students and Pharmacists by Charles Caspari, Evander Francis Kelly (1920)
"liniments. liniments are fluid or semifluid preparations, Usually in the form of
... liniments are applied to the skin with friction, and, when mechanical ..."
2. A Treatise on pharmacy by Edward Parrish, Thomas S. Wiegand (1884)
"Camphor liniment is well adapted for a vehicle for stimulating liniments; it is
made very readily by reducing the camphor to powder with a small quantity of ..."
3. A Text-book of materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacology by George Frank Butler (1908)
"The liniments are liquid preparations for external use, consisting of solutions
of oily or resinous constituents in Alcohol or Oils, or mixtures of liquid ..."
4. Practical Pharmacy: A Description of the Machinery, Appliances and Methods by Edward William Lucas (1908)
"The bases of the various liniments vary greatly, some being entirely ... The two
remaining liniments are more interesting from a pharmaceutical point of ..."
5. The Essentials of Materia Medica, and Therapeutics by Alfred Baring Garrod (1865)
"The majority of the liniments contain either a fixed or volatile oil or soap,
camphor being regarded as a concrete volatile oil; the exceptions are ..."
6. Household Surgery; Or, Hints on Emergencies by John Flint South (1850)
"liniments are also used to excite irritation on the skin, and produce a diversion
to it ... All liniments are applied by rubbing, either with the bare hand, ..."
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