purgative

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1. purgative - Noun

2. purgative - Adjective

3. purgative - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.

A purging medicine; a cathartic.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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These treatments included multiple doses of calomel (a cathartic or purgative ), and extensive bloodletting (with at least 2.365 total liters of blood being taken, which is slightly less than half of a normal adult's blood volume). Source: Internet

William of Tyre explains that "after suffering intolerably from the fever for several days, he ordered physicians of the Greek, Syrian, and other nations noted for skill in diseases to be called and insisted that they give him some purgative remedy." Source: Internet

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