Definition of Eliminative

1. a. Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.

Definition of Eliminative

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or producing elimination ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eliminative

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Eliminative

1. Relating to, or carrying on, elimination. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eliminative

eligibly
eliminable
eliminant
eliminate
eliminated
eliminates
eliminating
elimination
elimination diet
elimination disorders
elimination half-life
elimination question
elimination reaction
elimination tournament
eliminations
eliminative (current term)
eliminativism
eliminativist
eliminativistic
eliminativists
eliminator
eliminators
eliminatory
eliminatory system
eliminatory systems
eliminatrix
elinguated
elinguation
elinguid
elinin

Literary usage of Eliminative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"The Antiseptic and eliminative Treatment of Typhoid Fever.—DE. TV HUBBARD, after a plea for a fair trial of such methods of treatment and a statement that ..."

2. Therapeutic Gazette (1905)
"If a patient is having a series of convulsions, chloroform may be given to break the series while eliminative measures are being taken, but this should be ..."

3. Hygiene of Childhood: Suggestions for the Care of Children After the Period by Francis Huntington Rankin (1890)
"The danger was startlingly demonstrated of interfering with the eliminative function of the skin, and a signal proof of the important part which it plays in ..."

4. Analysis of Sharon waters, Schoharie County: Also of Avon, Richfield, and by Sebastian F. Fonda (1854)
"... and physiology of the cutaneous system, I purpose to explain the operation of eliminative Medicines, and also the beneficial effects of mineral waters. ..."

5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1898)
"In advancing the theory of eliminative treatment in typhoid, I have always ... Regarding the experience of those who have adopted the eliminative plan of ..."

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