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Definition of Ecbolic
1. n. A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.
Definition of Ecbolic
1. Adjective. (medicine) Producing abortion of a fetus or accelerating childbirth, oxytocic. ¹
2. Noun. (medicine) An agent that produces abortion of a fetus or hastens delivery of the same. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ecbolic
1. a type of drug [n -S]
Medical Definition of Ecbolic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecbolic
Literary usage of Ecbolic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1877)
"QUININE AS AN ecbolic. BY JOHN PATERSON, MD, ... of Baroda,1 as to the ecbolic
action of quinine, and may be worth recording. The patient, age twenty-four ..."
2. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1878)
"British Medical Journal, Oct. 6, 1877, p. 472. 75.—ON QUININE AS AN ecbolic. ...
of Baroda, as to the ecbolic action of quinine, and may be worth recording. ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1883)
"(To be continued) NOTE UPON TUB BARK or A REPUTED ecbolic PLANT FROM NEW CALEDONIA.
BY DR. THOMAS DIXSON, SYDNEY. Some two months ago I received from this ..."
4. The Therapeutics of gynecology and obstetrics by William Biddle Atkinson (1881)
"... especially in those continued cases of threatened abortion which are so annoying
to both physician and patient. 2. ecbolic OR ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, ..."
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