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Definition of Diaphoretic
1. Adjective. Inducing perspiration.
2. Noun. Used to produce perspiration.
Definition of Diaphoretic
1. a. Having the power to increase perspiration.
2. n. A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.
Definition of Diaphoretic
1. Adjective. Generating sweat or perspiration. ¹
2. Noun. A product or agent which induces or promotes perspiration. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diaphoretic
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Medical Definition of Diaphoretic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Diaphoretic
Literary usage of Diaphoretic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medico-physical Works: Being a Translation of Tractatus Quinque Medico-physici by John Mayow (1907)
"And this we must suppose is the reason that antimony, when calcined by the solar
beams, is fixed and made diaphoretic, just as. if it were changed into ..."
2. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"It is slightly diaphoretic and alterative, and has been used in chronic rheumatism,
... Dose, as an emetic, gr. j to gr. iv in solution ; as a diaphoretic, ..."
3. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1866)
"It not only acts as a diaphoretic, but allays the pain and irritability. The warm
bath every other evening, or oftener, greatly as- *bt.« its operation. ..."
4. Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry by Pierre Joseph Macquer (1758)
"PROCESS VII. Another Calcination of Antimony with Nitre. diaphoretic Antimony.
.. Materia Perlata. ... Dry it, and you have diaphoretic Antimony,. ..."
5. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"... Elder-flowers are stimulant and diaphoretic, also diuretic in-some degree.
The berries ire diaphoretic and laxative, while the inner bark is a ..."
6. Specific medication and specific medicines: Fourth Revision, with an by John Milton Scudder (1881)
"It is also diaphoretic, and probably influences, to a slight degree, ... In large
doses it is a powerful diaphoretic. EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. (BONESET. ..."
7. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"219; stimulating diaphoretic, fully equal to the Arist. Serp." Probably possessed
of similar properties to the other. Milne, in his Ind. Bot. ..."