NOUN
- a substance used as a warm moist medicinal compress or poultice
- application of warm wet coverings to a part of the body to relieve pain and inflammation
- deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord)
How To Use fomentation In A Sentence
- Hot fomentation should be applied to open up the skin pores and squeeze out the waste matter. Natural Remedies for Curing Acne
- In his memoirs, Joseph Holt recalled the fomentation of what was to become the Castle Hill rebellion.
- And moreover if, while the pain of the side persists, and does not yield to warm fomentations, and the sputa are not brought up, but are viscid and unconcocted, unless one get the pain resolved, either by loosening the bowels, or opening a vein, whichever of these may be proper; — if to persons so circumstanced ptisan be administered, their speedy death will be the result. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
- Three years later, it is the imam who the majority of Americans believe is engaging in "willful fomentation. A Muslim Reformer on the Mosque
- Peat baths and peat fomentations have been used since the beginning of time to alleviate pain and disease.
- Self-help measures such as fomentation, cold packs, gentle massage with topical agents to relieve pain can be very soothing.
- Perhaps it's well past time to hit the real source of this fomentation - the Iranian Mullahs. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
- Other treatments included massages with hot fomentations and salt glows; electric light cabinet for patients with pleurisy and obesity; infra ray lamp treatments; and sitz baths, perineal douches, and hot and cold compresses.
- The reasons for the fomentation of militancy have been spectacularly perpetuated by your very own government.
- There is an art to folding and making fomentations work right.