Definition of Rubefacients

1. rubefacient [n] - See also: rubefacient

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubefacients

rubbliest
rubbling
rubbly
rubboard
rubboards
rubby
rubby-dub
rubdown
rubdowns
rube
rubeanic acid
rubedinous
rubedo
rubefacience
rubefacient
rubefacients (current term)
rubefaction
rubefactions
rubefied
rubefies
rubefy
rubefying
rubel
rubelet
rubelike
rubell
rubella
rubella HI test
rubella cataract
rubella immunization

Literary usage of Rubefacients

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

1. A Text-book of materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacology by George Frank Butler (1908)
"rubefacients, as the mildest, cause a redness of the skin with dilated ... rubefacients. These are drugs which, when locally applied, are intended to ..."

2. Materia Medica: For the Use of Students by John Barclay Biddle (1874)
"rubefacients are used merely to produce redness of the skin. ... rubefacients are employed to remove congestion and inflammation, to rouse the capillary ..."

3. On Bandaging, and Other Operations of Minor Surgery by Fitzwilliam Sargent (1862)
"These means are chiefly rubefacients, ... SECTION I. OF rubefacients. These are applications which excite an ..."

4. A Compend of Human Anatomy by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1903)
"... and Oxalic Acid, each one being highly praised by its advocates. TOPICAL AGENTS. rubefacients AND ..."

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