GARGARISM
\ɡˈɑːɡəɹˌɪzəm], \ɡˈɑːɡəɹˌɪzəm], \ɡ_ˈɑː_ɡ_ə_ɹ_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of GARGARISM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Thomas Davidson
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A gargle. Any liquid medicine, intended to be retained in the mouth, for a certain time, and to be thrown in contact with the uvula, velum pendulum, tonsils, &c. For this purpose, the liquid is agitated by the air issuing from the larynx, the head being thrown back. Gargles are employed in cynanche tonsillaris and other diseases of the fauces, and are made of stimulants, sedatives, astringents, refrigerants, &c., according to circumstances. The process is termed gargling, gargarisatio. The term collutorium or collutorium oris is generally restricted to a wash for the mouth.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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