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Definition of Emmenagogue
1. Noun. Any agent that promotes menstrual discharge.
Definition of Emmenagogue
1. n. A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.
Definition of Emmenagogue
1. Noun. Herb that stimulates blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus, causing menstruation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emmenagogue
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Emmenagogue
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Emmenagogue
Literary usage of Emmenagogue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of uterine therapeutics by Edward John Tilt (1864)
"... held by drugs in the following scheme of emmenagogue treatment, but this does
not prevent an emmenagogue medication being as successful as many others. ..."
2. The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged by Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, Andrew Reid, John Gray, John Eames, John Martyn (1749)
"Calamus, Nardus, Cyperus, agree in their Diuretic, Carminative and emmenagogue
Virtue, ... and have the fame diuretic, carminative, emmenagogue Virtue, ..."
3. Clinical lectures on the diseases of women and children by Gunning S. Bedford (1876)
"Suppression, of the Menses occasioned by Periodical Hemorrhoidal Bleedings.—Vicarious
Menstruation.—emmenagogue Medicines not always indicated in ..."
4. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1866)
"The belief in its emmenagogue properties is very ancient, being mentioned by
Hippocrates. At the present day it is regarded among Oriental nations as ..."
5. A Handbook of uterine therapeutics and of diseases of women by Edward John Tilt (1881)
"I have more faith in emmenagogue medication than in drugs, and this medication
should vary in accordance with the peculiarity of the case; my usual plan is ..."
6. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"The seeds are white and angular, and have been much used as a purgative and
emmenagogue. They yield an oil by expression, which has been used as a local ..."
7. Thirty-five Years in the East: Adventures, Discoveries, Experiements, and by John Martin Honigberger (1852)
"emmenagogue, and galactagogue. ... R. emmenagogue, and pains of the uterus. ...
Sandar., (with honey-water) emmenagogue. ..."
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