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Definition of Constringent
1. a. Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing.
Definition of Constringent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constringent
Literary usage of Constringent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First Principles of Medicine by Archibald Billing (1851)
"... by sending a certain quantity of a local constringent, such as antimonial,
mercurial, neutral, and other salts, combined with colchicum, digitalis, ..."
2. The American Journal of Clinical Medicine (1906)
"All the glucosides of digitalis except digitonin partake of the three characteristic
systemic effects—heart tonic, diuretic, and artery-constringent. ..."
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