1) Aloes 2) Evacuant 3) Healthful 4) Laxative 5) Physic 6) Purgative 7) Releasing 8) Therapeutic
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1) Effecting a release 2) Emotionally purging 3) Healthful 4) Psychotherapeutic 5) Purgative 6) Strongly laxative
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In medicine, a cathartic is a substance that accelerates defecation. This is in contrast to a laxative, which is a substance which eases defecation, usually by softening feces. It is possible for a substance to be both a laxative and a cathartic. However, agents such as psyllium seed husks increase the bulk of the feces. Cathartics such as sorbito...
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• (a.) Alt. of Catharical • (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
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(from the article `laxative`) any drug used in the treatment of constipation to promote the evacuation of feces. Laxatives produce their effect by several mechanisms. Contact ... Contact purgatives include the anthraquinone derivatives (cascara, aloe, senna, and rhubarb), phenolphthalein, and ricinoleic acid (castor oil). ... [2 rela...
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A powerful purgative or laxative, causing severe evacuation, with or without pain.
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<pharmacology> Medications, through their chemical effects, that serve to increase the clearing of intestinal contents. ... Synonym: laxative. ... (16 Mar 1998) ...
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(kә-thahr´tik) causing emptying of the bowels. an agent that so acts; called also evacuant and purgative. producing emotional catharsis. bulk cathartic one stimulating bowel evacuation by increasing fecal volume. lubricant cathartic ...
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Laxative
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induces violent purging of the body
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Ca·thar'tic noun [ Greek ....]
(Medicine) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity. » The
cathartics are more energetic and certain in action that the
laxatives , which simply increase the tendency to alvine evacuation; and less po...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: kă-thar′tik Definitions: 1. Relating to catharsis. 2. An agent having purgative action.
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Cathartic: A laxative.
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Causes evacuation of the bowels. A cathartic may be either mild (laxative) or vigorous (purgative). Examples
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A cathartic is a medicine which is capable of producing the second grade of purgation, of which a laxative is the first.
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adj] - emotionally purging 2. [adj] - emotionally purging (of e.g. art) 3. [adj] - strongly laxative
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cathartic 1. From Greek, katharsis, through Late Latin catharticus; inducing catharsis; that is, purgative or cleansing. 2. A cathartic agent, especially a laxative.
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adjective emotionally purging
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evacuant adjective strongly laxative
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In large doses cathartics purge the bowels and stimulate glandular secretions. Barberry, Bloodroot, Blue Flag, Buckthorn, Cascara Sagrada, Celandine, Culver's Root, Turkish Rhubarb.
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