SORBEFACIENT
\sˈɔːbɪfˌe͡ɪʃənt], \sˈɔːbɪfˌeɪʃənt], \s_ˈɔː_b_ɪ_f_ˌeɪ_ʃ_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of SORBEFACIENT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Producing absorption.
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A medicine or substance which produces absorption.
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By William R. Warner
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A remedy that promotes absorption. The following are the chief sorbefacients or modifiers of nutritive action- entrophics: - Acida Vegetabilia; Alkalia; Ammoniacum; Brominium; Galbanum: Hydrargyri Praeparata; Iodinium; Liquor Calcii chloridi; Spongia usta; Compression, (methodical;) Friction; Mental Sorbefacients, (Imagination, Emotions.)
By Robley Dunglison
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A remedy that favors absorption.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Producing or promoting absorption. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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