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US
/ˈɫæksətɪv/
]
[ UK /lˈæksətˌɪv/ ]
[ UK /lˈæksətˌɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- stimulating evacuation of feces
NOUN
- a mild cathartic
How To Use laxative In A Sentence
- Unless contraindicated, prophylaxis with a gastrointestinal motility stimulant laxative and a stool softener is appropriate in terminally ill patients who are being given opioids.
- He prefers to purge children of demons by making them take laxatives and emetics.
- Patients who do not respond to other interventions may have to use other mild laxatives, suppositories and enemas and their use may become inevitable in the later stages of the disease.
- It has a laxative effect, however it does not make your stools runny or bitty, which is a big down side of laxatives. How to clean your ass before anal sex ?
- The topics include more commonly used products such as kava, ginkgo biloba and St. John's wort, and some older but mainstream products such as aloe and the laxatives senna and cascara sagrada.
- Functional fibre is found in bulk laxatives, fortified foods, beverages, and dietary supplements.
- Yin medicines have a superficial action on the body or cause some type of elimination through their laxative, diaphoretic or diuretic properties.
- If the diverticulitis is not severe, treatment will be with painkillers, antibiotics, laxatives and dietary advice.
- Laxatives irritate the lining of the intestines, thus causing muscular contractions.
- The ginger may have served to 'settle the stomach' and the aloes would certainly have acted as a laxative. Times, Sunday Times