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Aromatic :: Aromatic (n.) A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon, spices..

Diaphoretic :: Diaphoretic (n.) A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

Polypharmacy :: Polypharmacy (n.) The act or practice of prescribing too many medicines.

Maidenhair :: Maidenhair (n.) A fern of the genus Adiantum (A. pedatum), having very slender graceful stalks. It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair..

Smilax :: Smilax (n.) A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla..

Medicine :: Medicine (n.) Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.

Swam :: Swallowwort (n.) A poisonous plant (Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort..

Chalybeate :: Chalybeate (n.) Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient..

Dill :: Dill (n.) An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dillseed..

Medicine :: Medicine (n.) The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease..

Lignum-vitae :: Lignum-vitae (n.) A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum..

Apollo :: Apollo (n.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the sun god), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phebus..

Pharmaceutical :: Pharmaceutical (a.) Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations..

Attenuant :: Attenuant (n.) A medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent.

Scammony :: Scammony (n.) An inspissated sap obtained from the root of the Convolvulus Scammonia, of a blackish gray color, a nauseous smell like that of old cheese, and a somewhat acrid taste. It is used in medicine as a cathartic..

Helleborism :: Helleborism (n.) The practice or theory of using hellebore as a medicine.

Compounder :: Compounder (n.) One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines..

Tolerance :: Tolerance (n.) The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal.

Medicinal :: Medicinal (a.) Of or pertaining to medicine; medical.

Styptical :: Styptic (n.) A styptic medicine.

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