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Definition of Demulcent
1. Adjective. Having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin.
2. Noun. A medication (in the form of an oil or salve etc.) that soothes inflamed or injured skin.
Definition of Demulcent
1. a. Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.
2. n. A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting it from irritation. Gum Arabic, glycerin, olive oil, etc., are demulcents.
Definition of Demulcent
1. Adjective. soothing or softening ¹
2. Noun. (medicine) A soothing medication used to relieve pain in inflamed tissues ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Demulcent
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Medical Definition of Demulcent
1. Soothing, bland, allaying the irritation of inflamed or abraded surfaces. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demulcent
Literary usage of Demulcent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"Emollient, demulcent, and diuretic, in catarrh of the respiratory and vesical
... It is nutritive and demulcent, and is chiefly used as a common drink, ..."
2. A Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts: And Collateral Information in the Arts by Arnold James Cooley (1845)
"Laxative and demulcent. A good medicine in the coughs of children. ... demulcent.
In coughs and hoarseness attended by indigestion. ..."
3. Practical dietetics: With Special Reference to Diet in Diseases by William Gilman Thompson (1905)
"demulcent AND NUTRITIVE Barley Water (Pavy).—Take two ounces of pearl barley and
wash well with cold ... A bland, demulcent, and mildly nutritive beverage. ..."
4. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"Barley-water is used as a demulcent decoction; and for diluting cow's mflk for
infants, to prevent the precipitation of solid masses of casein in the ..."
5. The homœopathic vade mecum of modern medicine and surgery by Edward Harris Ruddock (1871)
"demulcent Beverages. BARLEY-WATER.—Wash a table-spoonful of pearl-barley in cold
... Barley-water is a valuable demulcent in colds, affections of the chest, ..."
6. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"as a palliative and demulcent in consumption and cough ; I ha\ frequently seen
it used with advantage, and have often hear those employing it confess the ..."
7. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"The applications before mentioned as employed in protracted cases of Prurigo
senilis may be used. Leeches, emollient poultices, demulcent«, aad narcotic ..."
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